rootkit

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
rootkit
 /root'kit/, n.

   [very common] A kit for maintaining {root}; an automated {cracking}
   tool. What {script kiddies} use. After a cracker has first broken in
   and gained root access, he or she will install modified binaries such
   as a modified version login with a backdoor, or a version of ps that
   will not report the cracker's processes). This is a rootkit.
    

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