What Is Difference Between Root User and Superuser?

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Root is like a guy who has all the powers to add users to del user to create new groups to remove someone from group. To give someone permissions and can also access local files like /etc/shadow /etc/passwd. Whereas user has no powers to modify internal files and also don't have privelege to access some internal files.

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