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Definition of superuser in English English dictionary
- A user with complete access to the operating system and its configuration
- The root user who has special privileges Usually the system administrator
- See root login
- The privileged UID of the system administrator It is also referred to as the "root" user because the home directory of this user is usually the mount point at the highest level directory in the file system
- A user who has access to all parts of the system This is usually the system administrator Also known as root
- - Usually synonymous with root operator
- A login identity that enables special permissions for modifying system files that most users do not have permission to modify Superuser is also called "the root user" or "root" because the user ID for superuser is root On most computer systems, only a few users have permission to become superuser
- A security level that can perform all of the functions of the other security levels as well as set names, passwords, and security levels for other users A superuser is usually the network element administrator See also Retrieve user, Maintenance user, and Provisioning user
- The user name (known also as root) with which you can do all sorts of dangerous things to the system, including creating new user names and installing new hardware and software With luck, you don't know the password for the superuser If you do, use it carefully The system administrator really should be the only person who logs in as the superuser
- A special Unix privilege level, with unlimited access to all files, directories, and commands The system administrator must become the superuser to perform certain functions, such as creating new accounts, changing passwords, and other administrative tasks that ordinary users are not allowed to perform for security reasons The superuser's login name is usually root, with a user ID of 0 (Ref: Dyson, Dictionary of Networking)
- An informal name for ROOT
- The privilege that exempts someone from the restrictions imposed by Documentum security For example, a user with Superuser privilege has READ permission for every object in the system, regardless of the object-level permissions, and can also change the permissions for any object
- super user, su, wheel The user of the root account
- On a UNIX system, refers to the person logged in under the special username root The superuser has higher access privileges than regular users This allows the superuser to carry out essential system maintenance that, for security reasons, regular users are not allowed to perform
- An alternate name for the user of the root login account See also system administrator
- The root account with the UID of 0 Every local domain has a superuser This account is the logical parent of all processes and thus can bypass file permissions
- The most privileged user available on Unix machines (also called root) The superuser has complete access privileges to all files on the machine
- The most powerful user on a Unix system The superuser pretty much has permission to read or write anything they want, do anything to any device, run any program, etc Usually, users log in as themselves with lesser permissions, and then use the su command to temporarily become superuser The superuser's user id is always 0 and user name is always "root" You can tell if you are running Interrogator as the superuser, because the background of all of your windows will be black instead of white
- A Perforce user with superuser permissions
- {i} account that has access to restricted activities; person who has an account with access to restricted activities (Computers)