rootkit

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rootkit - 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.