Superuser
Superuser On many computer operating systems, superuser is the term used for the special ... operating systems, and there is no distinguished superuser account. Effectively any user of the system ... user to "gain root" (to execute with superuser privileges code supplied by that user) are ... overflow in a program already running with superuser privileges. If a person "has root ...
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Talk:Superuser
Talk:Superuser Did I dream that 'root' in the ... page says "It is also the default superuser in few Operating Systems like NetBSD.", and ... default, the user named Administrator is a superuser through a combination of privileges given to ... user called Administrator is not necessarily a superuser. Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 04:38, 2005 ... some serious modifications to this page? A superuser account is an account that exists ...
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Talker
... or SU level The God or SU (superuser) level was usually used to represent the ... special case lying in between Resident and Superuser. On most talkers, a Pseudo was originally ... in temporary training to become a full Superuser. Such persons had an extremely limited set ... standards varied from place to place. A Superuser is the basic level of talker administration ... Many normal users aspired to become a superuser, but on established talkers becoming a ...
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Toor
... word "root" spelled backwards, is an alternative superuser account in Unix-like operating systems, particularly ... system failure. It also means that the superuser account, necessary for repairing a broken system ... is exactly equivalent to the normal 'root' superuser account, but is configured to use a ... User ID #0 is reserved as the superuser account, and is given permission to do ... administrator did not intend for a second superuser account, then it may mean that ...
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FreeBSD Jail
... with its own files processes, user and superuser accounts. From within a jailed process, the ... to painlessly delegate several tasks which require superuser access without handing out complete control over ... or mistake (even if done by the superuser) does not jeopardize the rest of the ... though he finds a way to gain superuser access. If the root account of a ... people by giving them access to the superuser account. It is safe for two ...
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Logical security
... range from anonymous login (Guest) privileges to Superuser (root) privileges. Guest and Superuser accounts are the two extremes, as individual ... the system administrator (a.k.a. the Superuser) has the ability to grant or deny ... access rights only for security purposes. The superuser is an authority level assigned to system ... such as Windows 2000 and XP), a superuser is known as the Administrator account. ...
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Install (Mpd wiki)
... the /etc/mpd.conf file as a superuser: # {your text editor here} /etc/mpd.conf ... 4-r2: Make sure that your non-superuser you picked to run MPD ('user' line ... you will need to add the non-superuser # grep audio /etc/group If not then ... you will need to put that non-superuser into the audio group, either through usermod ... the /etc/mpd.conf file as a superuser: # {your text editor here} /etc/mpd. ...
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Open source vs. closed source
... that it needs to run effectively as "superuser", with full access to every part of ... desktop software has no business requesting full superuser privileges; if there is some task that it needs superuser privileges to perform, then it can ask ... application run all the time with full superuser privileges is almost never the right solution ...
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Privilege (Computing)
... users. Unix On Unix-like systems, the Superuser (commonly known as 'root') is user that ... Administrator' is the closest equivalent to the Superuser on Unix-like systems. However, this user ... the operating system's protections, as the Superuser can. Members of the 'Administrators' group have ... permissions on files or directories. See also Superuser File system permissions Kernel (computer science)
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Talk:Control-Alt-Delete
... UTC) My point about "normally only the superuser" having permission was intended to convey the ... all sorts of ways of programmatically granting superuser rights - as a simple example, if I ... programmatically halt the machine without "being" the superuser, except in the most [almost pedantically] technical ... process running under the aegis of the superuser account that is performing the actual task ...
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