super user

[flawless]

how do i run terminal as the super user?

i know you can type sudo before the command. but i want to know how i can run as the super user so i dont have to type sudo before every command.

thanx in advance

[rich_roast]

There are a variety of ways to achieve this but for all that is holy please make sure you understand the risks of running around with root permissions, even if it's only running terminal as root.

AFAIK sudo should be remembering that you've run the command recently and further sudo operations for about five minutes or some other timeout should not pester you for your password. I don't know how to increase the timeout but it might be worth investigating this as a solution.

If you, like me, open a directory as root in your file explorer program then opening a terminal using the right click menu should open the terminal as root.

There is also the command

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su

which substitutes root for your user, meaning that all commands you enter will be as root thereafter until you exit root's account with

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exit

which you ought to do before closing the terminal window, as su runs as a process (if you're running Gnome's terminal you'll get a warning if you try to close the terminal window without exiting su first to this effect).

[flawless]

thanx v.much i have been typing all sorts to get it to run as super user i forgot the command because i went back to using windows as i use it to make my music.

just another quick question is there any way of getting reason 4.0 to work in linux?

[Aging Technogeek]

Reason 4.0 apparently runs quite well using Wine. Check the Winehq app database:

http://www.winehq.org/search?cx=partner ... rg%2F#1314

[guigum]

The easiest way I found is to use this command

'sudo passwd root'

You may or may not be prompted for your current login, as usual, then you will be prompted to set a new passwd and confirm this passwd. This is the root or 'su' password. 'su' exists, they just don't give us the passwd..

(ie) sudo passwd root
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated successfully

su will work with this new password, at least it did for me. Mint 9

[trollboy]

The simplest way is to to run the command

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sudo -i

which give you a root terminal until you type the command

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exit

or close the terminal.

[AlbertP]

Use one of these things:

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sudo -i
sudo su
su

They should all work, without the need to set a password: they want your own password if there's no root password set (even su does this).
I prefer su as it is shorter to type.

Edit. If you are running a distro which configures a root password during install, sudo -i and sudo su usually do not work, and you need to do su.

[trollboy]

I never even thought of trying su on its own. Sweet.

[StanTheMan]

The sudo command basiclly gives you Terminal root privileges , but using only ONE password for sudo and First User.
With Debian you crreate two passwords at install , one for Root and one for User.
The above method described by guigum sets up the Root account after install to work like Debian. You will have two passwords, but you will not have to run the sudo command at every line in a long Terminal process.

[linuxviolin]

until you exit root's account with

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exit

Or just with the shortcut Ctrl+d

[trollboy]

until you exit root's account with

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exit

Or just with the shortcut Ctrl+d

Or Alt + F4 but to be fair that doesn't work in a tty either