Crossword clues for superuser
superuser
Wiktionary
n. (context computing English) A user with complete access to the operating system and its configuration.
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) consists of non-root users who are allowed root privileges via the command sudo, and so is not the same as root in this instance.
The principle of least privilege recommends that most users and applications run under an ordinary account to perform their work, as a superuser account is capable of unrestricted, potentially adverse, system-wide changes.
(In some cases, the actual name of the account is not the determining factor; on Unix-like systems, for example, the user with a user identifier (UID) of zero is the superuser, regardless of the name of that account; and in systems which implement a role based security model, any user with the role of superuser (or its synonyms) can carry out all actions of the superuser account).
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.