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