Logging in as root in terminal

February 16th, 2005

Stupid to most, but the manual doesn’t make this clear enough:

In your terminal type su and then enter your root password

username@hostname:~$ su
Password:

This will allow you to install and access files anywhere on your installation; in fact without being root there is little point at all having a terminal screen. Well there isn’t to me at least


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