May 15, 2003

superloser

n.

[Unix] A superuser with no clue — someone with root privileges on a Unix system and no idea what he/she is doing, the moral equivalent of a three-year-old with an unsafetied Uzi. Anyone who thinks this is an uncommon situation reckons without the territorial urges of management.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:28 AM

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