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Reverted edits by 216.142.2.25 (Talk); changed back to last version by Jimbo

Jimbo at 05:40, 25 August 2004

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Dave at 05:39, 25 August 2004

2004-08-25T05:39:02Z

Jimbo at 04:17, 25 August 2004

2004-08-25T04:17:45Z

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[[root]] generally refers to either the "super user" - the user account which has ultimate power over the entire system - or to [[root privilege]], which is the ultimate power itself.

Unlike the Windows environment, under BSD (and typically under other unixlike operating systems as well) the system [[administrator]] has the final say on absolutely everything that goes on under the hood. There are many processes and functions that the various Windows operating systems hide from or deny access to the [[administrator]], whereas there is very literally nothing, under FreeBSD, that system processes are privileged to do but the root user is not.

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	Unlike the Windows environment, under BSD (and typically under other unixlike operating systems as well) the system [[administrator]] has the final say on absolutely everything that goes on under the hood. There are many processes and functions that the various Windows operating systems hide from or deny access to the [[administrator]], whereas there is very literally nothing, under FreeBSD, that system processes are privileged to do but the root user is not.		Unlike the Windows environment, under BSD (and typically under other unixlike operating systems as well) the system [[administrator]] has the final say on absolutely everything that goes on under the hood. There are many processes and functions that the various Windows operating systems hide from or deny access to the [[administrator]], whereas there is very literally nothing, under FreeBSD, that system processes are privileged to do but the root user is not.
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		+	On older BSD and SysV systems, the root account was actually called "avatar".

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 [[root]] generally refers to either the "super user" - the user account which has ultimate power over the entire system - or to [[root privilege]], which is the ultimate power itself.
-Unlike the Windows environment, under BSD (and typically under other unixlike operating systems as well) the system [[administrator]] has the final say on absolutely everything that goes on under the hood.  There are many processes and functions that the various Windows operating systems hide from or deny access to the [[administrator]], whereas there is very literally nothing, under FreeBSD, that system processes are privileged to do but the root user is not.
+Unlike the Windows environment, under BSD (and typically under other unixlike operating systems as well) the system [[administrator]] has the final say on absolutely everything that goes on under the hood.  There are many processes and functions that the various Windows operating systems deny access to or hide from even [[administrator]]-privileged accounts, whereas under FreeBSD there is very literally nothing that system processes are privileged to do but the root user is not.
 On older BSD and SysV systems, the root account was actually called "avatar".
 [[Category:FreeBSD Terminology]]