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    Re: Here's something for the geek inside of you.. —Christopher Lannan
   (...) so I know that root is "the Man" on a UNIX system. Chris (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: Here's something for the geek inside of you.. —Jasper Janssen
   (...) The sysadmin, to be exact. UID 0 is the superuser account, which has auithority to do, essentially, anything. Usually this is called root. It is possible, but very unusual, to have the superuser account as another name instead of root (aka, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 

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