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• go root vi. [Unix; common] To temporarily enter root mode in order to perform a privileged operation.
  This use is deprecated in Australia, where v. `root' is a synonym for "fuck"....
• oot: [UNIX] n. 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 (home directory of the root user)....
• crack root: v. To defeat the security system of a UNIX machine and gain {root} privileges thereby
  ee {cracking}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• 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....
• oot mode: n. Syn. with {wizard mode} or `wheel mode'.
  Like these, it is often generalized to describe privileged states in systems other than OSes....
• 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...
• dongle-disk: /don'gl disk/ n. A special floppy disk that is required in order to perform some task.
  Some contain special coding that allows an application to identify it uniquely, others *are* special code that does something that normally-resident programs don't or can't....
• 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: [UNIX] n. Syn. {root}, {avatar}. This usage has spread to non-UNIX environme
  he superuser is any account with all {wheel} bits on....