• In computing, the superuser is a special user account used for system administration. Depending on the operating system (OS), the actual name of this...
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    Sudo (redirect from Superuser do)
    security privileges of another user, by default the superuser. It originally stood for "superuser do", as that was all it did, and this remains its most...
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    root"). This is the home directory of the 'root' superuser. On many Mac and iOS systems this superuser home directory is /var/root. Filesystem Hierarchy...
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  • runs its own copy of an operating system (OS), and customers may have superuser-level access to that operating system instance, so they can install almost...
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  • the closest equivalent to the Superuser on Unix-like systems. It has many of the privileges of a classic Unix superuser (such as being a trustee on every...
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  • to a power user or administrator, who has knowledge of, and access to, superuser accounts; for example, an end luser who cannot be trusted with a root...
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  • mode in which a multiuser computer operating system boots into a single superuser. It is mainly used for maintenance of multi-user environments such as...
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  • Unix command su, which stands for 'substitute user' (or historically 'superuser'), is used by a computer user to execute commands with the privileges...
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    and surrounding wifi signals. The service provides ten levels of Superuser. Superuser status is awarded to users after they apply and perform a special...
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    Retrieved March 7, 2020. Lurrie, Stephen (February 21, 2023). "Meet the Superusers Behind IMDb, the Internet's Favorite Movie Site". WIRED. Retrieved February...
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  • the owner of the file or the superuser (the "User" attributes) and two attributes that could only be set by the superuser (the "System" attributes): (User)...
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  • genetics into music, including his celebrated 2001 Drill 'n' bass release SuperUser released by Rephlex Records, his work with Finn Peters in making music...
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  • printers, and other peripherals. This method, among others, also enables the superuser to delegate some administrative tasks to normal users, similar to the...
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  • kernel, rooting an Android device gives similar access to administrative (superuser) permissions as on Linux or any other Unix-like operating system such...
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  • can range from anonymous login (guest) privileges to superuser (root) privileges. Guest and superuser accounts are the two extremes, as individual access...
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  • setting (although this varies from implementation to implementation). The superuser also typically has /sbin and /usr/sbin entries for easily executing system...
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  • The Unix superuser has access to all directories on the file system, and hence can access home directories of all users. The superuser's home directory...
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  • Retrieved February 6, 2015.[permanent dead link] "Unprotect a Word Document". superuser.com. Archived from the original on November 1, 2018. Retrieved March 9...
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    Disconnected] In some Unix-like operating systems, a user must have superuser privileges to use tcpdump because the packet capturing mechanisms on those...
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  • Stack Exchange (redirect from Superuser.com)
    Stack Exchange is a network of question-and-answer (Q&A) websites on topics in diverse fields, each site covering a specific topic, where questions, answers...
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    ends in $ or % if the user is a normal user, but in # if the user is a superuser ("root" in Unix terminology). End-users can often modify prompts. Depending...
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  • Toor, the word "root" spelled backwards, is an alternative superuser account in Unix-like operating systems, particularly BSD and variants. In Unix, it...
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    For this reason, older versions of Wireshark and TShark often ran with superuser privileges. Considering the huge number of protocol dissectors that are...
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  • for files, one for directories. For files, particularly executables, superuser could tag these as to be retained in main memory, even when their need...
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  • and only allows ordinary users to modify their own login shells. The superuser can modify the shells of other users, by supplying the name of the user...
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  • XML SBOD—Spinning Beachball of Death SBP-2—Serial Bus Protocol 2 sbin—superuser binary sbs—Small Business Server SBU—Standard Build Unit SCADA—Supervisory...
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  • eventually realized that the unauthorized user was a hacker who had acquired superuser access to the LBNL system by exploiting a vulnerability in the movemail...
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  • allow hard links to directories. UNIX System V allowed them, but only the superuser had permission to make such links. Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard) and newer...
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  • process and affect the permissions for sending signals. A process without superuser privileges may signal another process only if the sender's ruid or euid...
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  • leading to severe security breaches. Many exploits are designed to provide superuser-level access to a computer system. Attackers may use multiple exploits...
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