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Meanings of root account in English
Special user account used for system administration.
Usage of root account in English
1
The potential for nefarious activity is literally unlimited with root account access.
2
Only users and processes with root account access can ignore file system permissions rules.
3
Mendax wrestled a root account from NMELH1 first, but Prime Suspect wasn't far behind.
4
With patch in place, he deleted the root account he had installed while visiting port 2001.
5
Always implement well-documented security protocols for MySQL (e.g., don't leave your root account password blank).
6
But I can't figure out how to disable the root account from logging in remotely via SSH.
7
You should normally never give out your root account, unless you are administering a machine with more than one system administrator.
8
He had been in and out of NASA quite a few times and had recently made himself a root account on CSAB.
9
He had given his backdoor root account a bland name, but he could reasonably assume that these three users knew their system pretty well.
10
Root accounts give users complete control over a machine.
11
Some Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, do away, at least out of the box, with root accounts altogether, relying entirely on sudo.
12
In just a few hours, Mendax had cracked 5000 passwords, some 100 of which were to root accounts.