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  2. Rooting (Android) - Wikipedia

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    Systemless root uses various techniques to gain root access without modifying the system partition of a device. Some root applications may include a "hiding" function, which makes attempts to mask the effects and results of rooting, often by whitelisting certain applications for the root or blocking access to affected files. [34]

  3. Privilege escalation - Wikipedia

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    In computer security, jailbreaking is defined as the act of removing limitations that a vendor attempted to hard-code into its software or services. [2] A common example is the use of toolsets to break out of a chroot or jail in UNIX-like operating systems [ 3 ] or bypassing digital rights management (DRM).

  4. Environment variable - Wikipedia

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    Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server uses "\WTSRV". %windir% This variable points to the Windows directory. (On the Windows NT family of operating systems, it is identical to the %SystemRoot% variable). Windows 95–98 and Windows ME are, by default, installed in "C:\Windows". For other versions of Windows, see the %SystemRoot% entry above.

  5. Rootkit - Wikipedia

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    Lightweight operating systems such as Windows PE, Windows Recovery Console, Windows Recovery Environment, BartPE, or Live Distros can be used for this purpose, allowing the system to be "cleaned". Even if the type and nature of a rootkit is known, manual repair may be impractical, while re-installing the operating system and applications is ...

  6. Directory traversal attack - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Windows and DOS directory traversal uses the ..\ or ../ patterns. [2] Each partition has a separate root directory (labeled C:\ where C could be any partition), and there is no common root directory above that. This means that for most directory vulnerabilities on Windows, attacks are limited to a single partition.

  7. Root directory - Wikipedia

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    View of the root directory in the OpenIndiana operating system. In a computer file system, and primarily used in the Unix and Unix-like operating systems, the root directory is the first or top-most directory in a hierarchy. [1] It can be likened to the trunk of a tree, as the starting point where all branches originate from.

  8. Superuser - Wikipedia

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    The name root may have originated because root is the only user account with permission to modify the root directory of a Unix system. This directory was originally considered to be root's home directory , [ 4 ] but the UNIX Filesystem Hierarchy Standard now recommends that root's home be at /root . [ 5 ]

  9. List of software bugs - Wikipedia

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    The first line tries to find the script's containing directory. This could fail, for example if the directory was moved while the script was running, invalidating the "selfpath" variable $0. It would also fail if $0 contained no slash character, or contained a broken symlink, perhaps mistyped by the user.