Superuser accounts are highly privileged accounts primarily used for administration by specialized IT employees . These users/accounts may have virtually unlimited privileges, or ownership, over a system. Superuser account privileges may allow: full read/write/ execute privileges.
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Superuser privileges are given by being UID (userid) 0. grep for the user from the /etc/password file . The first numeric field after the user is the UID and the second is the GID (groupid). If the user is not UID 0, they do not have root privileges.
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Ways to Become root user or Superuser in Linux
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Creating a super user on a Linux operating system
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