Draft:Fakeroot
Unix command
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fakeroot is a command on several Unix systems, such as Linux, that allows a non-root user to act as root.[1]
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How it works is setting the UID and GID to 0, which is effectively Superuser access to a Linux box, however you cannot access dirs like root because of how it doesn't give you actual root privileges, it just acts like you are a superuser.[2]