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Root account

The standard UNIX or IRIX login account reserved for use by the system administrator. This account’s home directory is the root (/) directory of the file system; the user of the root account has full access to the entire file system (that is, can change and delete any file or directory).

The user of this account is sometimes referred to as the superuser.

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