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2. Rooting (Android) - Wikipedia

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   Rooting is the process by which users of Android devices can attain privileged control (known as root access) over various subsystems of the device, usually smartphones and tablets. Because Android is based on a modified version of the Linux kernel, rooting an Android device gives similar access to administrative ( superuser) permissions as on ...

3. Rootkit - Wikipedia

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   Rootkit. A rootkit is a collection of computer software, typically malicious, designed to enable access to a computer or an area of its software that is not otherwise allowed (for example, to an unauthorized user) and often masks its existence or the existence of other software. [1] The term rootkit is a compound of "root" (the traditional name ...

4. sudo - Wikipedia

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   www .sudo .ws. sudo ( / suːduː / [4]) is a program for Unix-like computer operating systems that enables users to run programs with the security privileges of another user, by default the superuser. [5] It originally stood for "superuser do", [6] as that was all it did, and it is its most common usage; [7] however, the official Sudo project ...

5. Superuser - Wikipedia

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   Superuser. In computing, the superuser is a special user account used for system administration. Depending on the operating system (OS), the actual name of this account might be root, administrator, admin or supervisor. In some cases, the actual name of the account is not the determining factor; on Unix-like systems, for example, the user with ...

6. chroot - Wikipedia

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   chroot. chroot is an operation on Unix and Unix-like operating systems that changes the apparent root directory for the current running process and its children. A program that is run in such a modified environment cannot name (and therefore normally cannot access) files outside the designated directory tree.

7. su (Unix) - Wikipedia

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   Unix and Unix-like. Type. Command. The Unix command su, which stands for 'substitute user' [1] [2] (or historically 'superuser' [3] [4] ), is used by a computer user to execute commands with the privileges of another user account. When executed it invokes a shell without changing the current working directory or the user environment.

8. Directory (computing) - Wikipedia

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   In computing, a directory is a file system cataloging structure which contains references to other computer files, and possibly other directories. On many computers, directories are known as folders, or drawers, [1] analogous to a workbench or the traditional office filing cabinet. The name derives from books like a telephone directory that ...

9. Root name server - Wikipedia

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   A root name server is a name server for the root zone of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. It directly answers requests for records in the root zone and answers other requests by returning a list of the authoritative name servers for the appropriate top-level domain (TLD). The root name servers are a critical part of the Internet ...