🌍 Without a home 💻 No admin rights

rootless

7.7

Running without administrator rights so it does not need full system access

adjective
/ˈruːt.ləs/

Specialized

: sin privilegios de administrador

Using a rootless setup, developers can easily test applications without affecting the main system.

Examples

A nice, easy, rootless install of Play Store would be much appreciated.

Blog text (34)
In order to do this, he returns to an opposition drawn in the money chapter between the productive and acquisitive economies (agriculture, which is tied to the earth, versus trade, which is rootless and thus "parasitic").

Academic text (2000)
With a rootless container, applications can run anywhere without needing special permissions.
The rootless software allows users to install it without requiring administrator access.

Antonyms

rooted

Specialized

7.4

A device or account with full control over the system files

Compounds

rootless cosmopolitan

Archaic

8.9

A person who has no permanent home and feels at home in many places

How Privileged

privileged

11 5.4

rootless

Specialized

7.7

Surface Forms

rootless positive

Morphology

rootless = root (semi-transparent) = root + less

Formally 'root' + '-less' is clear, but the sense depends on specialized computing knowledge of 'root' as the superuser.

Etymology

Rootless uses the same pieces: root is the main system user called 'root' and -less means 'without'. So rootless software or containers run 'without' that powerful user, which helps keep the system safer by limiting what the program can do.