Crack Root

Crack Root definition - hacker
To defeat the security system of a UNIX machine, thereby gaining root privileges. The superuser account with the user name “root” ignores permission bits; it has the user number 0 on a UNIX system.

See Also: Bit and Bit Challenges; Root; Superuser or Administrative Privileges; UNIX.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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