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how to enableing "root" user one ubuntu 11.04

Asked by Jer~Jer

ok well im trying to find a way to enable the root user so that i can work with some commands that i need. if some one could help that would be great thank you very much.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo -i

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

And you are root.

Hope this helps

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Jer~Jer (kornmusic420) said : 		#2

it did but i would like to be able to login to the system as root user.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

http://www.sizlopedia.com/2008/04/16/how-to-login-to-ubuntu-as-root-user/

Hope this helps

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dedal (grigor-kolev) said : 		#4

sudo passwd
choice password

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