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• oot n. [Unix] 1. The superuser account (with user name `root') that ignores permission bits, user number 0 on a Unix system.
  The term avatar is also used. 2. The top node of the system directory structure...
• uperuser: [UNIX] n. Syn. {root}, {avatar}. This usage has spread to non-UNIX environme
  he superuser is any account with all {wheel} bits on....
• wheel bit: n. A privilege bit that allows the possessor to perform some restricted operation on a timesharing system
  uch as read or write any file on the system regardless of protections, change or look at any address in the running monitor, crash or reload the system, and kill or create jobs and user accounts....
• avatar n. Syn. [in Hindu mythology, the incarnation of a god] 1.
  Among people working on virtual reality and cyberspace interfaces, an avatar is an icon or representation of a user in a shared virtual reality....
• wheel bit n. A privilege bit that allows the possessor to perform some restricted operation on a timesharing system
  uch as read or write any file on the system regardless of protections, change or look at any address in the running monitor, crash or reload the system, and kill or create jobs and user accounts....
• uperuser n. [Unix] Syn. root, avatar. This usage has spread to non-Unix environme
  he superuser is any account with all wheel bits on. A more specific term than wheel....
• avatar: [CMU, Tektronix] n. Syn. {root}, {superuser}.
  There are quite a few UNIX machines on which the name of the superuser account is `avatar' rather than `root'....
• crack root: v. To defeat the security system of a UNIX machine and gain {root} privileges thereby
  ee {cracking}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• oor n. The Bourne-Again Super-user. An alternate account with UID of 0, created on Unix machines where the root user has an inconvenient choice of shell.
  Compare avatar....