Special user account used for system administration.
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 .
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