superuser
Sign in to saveAlso known as root user, root, administrator, admin, supervisor, root account, administrator account, supervisor account
thumb|367x367px|List of user groups as displayed in Arch Linux. Here, the superuser is "root".
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- Subclass of
- user account
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- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/root
- short name
- root
- facet of
- operating system
- different from
- system administrator
- used by
- system administrator
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- Unix and Unix-like
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- Novell NetWare
- OpenVMS
- Older personal systems
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thumb|367x367px|List of user groups as displayed in Arch Linux. Here, the superuser is "root".
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. 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 making unrestricted, potentially adverse, system-wide changes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “superuser” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.