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One with special I.T. privileges
Answer for the clue "One with special I.T. privileges ", 9 letters:
superuser
Word definitions for superuser in dictionaries
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n. (context computing English) A user with complete access to the operating system and its configuration.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In computing, the superuser is a special user account used for system administration . Depending on the operating system (OS), the actual name of this account might be root , administrator , admin or supervisor . On Linux, the user group administrator (adm) ...
Usage examples of superuser.
Sometimes a hacker thinks he or she has broken into the superuser account because of seeing the "#" prompt.
In this and the next few issues of Guide to (mostly) Harmless Hacking I’ll tell you several ways to get logged on as the superuser in the root account of some Internet host computers.
It is legal and harmless to pay them visits so long as you don’t figure out how to gain superuser status while playing with them.
The name of the superuser account is, inconveniently, "randy" and you can’t actually log in as "randy" without entering a password that only Randy would know.
The name of the superuser account is, inconveniently, "randy" and you can't actually log in as "randy" without entering a password that only Randy would know.
Only the three superusers, of which she was one, could really tamper with the brains of the system.
Instead, she called herself LUCYTALK, and according to this audit trail she had been signed on as the superuser when CAIN had sent the message to New York.