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| | root: root user, superuser, administrative user, root account |
 | | root, which is also referred to as the root user, the administrative user, the system administrator, the root account and the superuser, is the user name or account that has access to all commands and files on a Unix-like operating system. |
 | | One of these is the root directory, which is the top level directory on a system, i.e., the directory in which all other directories, including their subdirectories, and files reside. |
 | | The use of the term root for the all-powerful administrative user may have arisen from the fact that root is the only account having write permissions (i.e., permission to write data to files) in the root directory. |
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