This Iodynamics article teaches newbies about the significance of root. "When a user logs on to a computer running one of the various flavors of Unix, he is prompted to enter his username and password. The system then checks its roster of users to determine if the password and username match. If the user logs in with the username root, using the root password, he will be given permission to do lots of things that other users aren't allowed to do."

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