(person) by rakslice Sun Feb 06 2000 at 5:04:13

A user of a computer system with unrestricted access to all functionality. The canonical example of this is the root user on unix systems.

I like it!
(idea) by Jargon Thu Jul 19 2001 at 17:03:37
superprogrammer = S = support

superuser n.

[Unix] Syn. root, avatar. This usage has spread to non-Unix environments; the superuser is any account with all wheel bits on. A more specific term than wheel.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

I like it!

Log in or register to write something here or to contact authors.