Root user permission

[Matthew Nicholson]

are you sure your root? the default set up is that root has a random
password, so, unless you changed the root password, and then su'd to
root, odds are you are just a "regular" user, who has sudo rights. 

to set a root password:

sudo passwd root
<it will prompt twice for a new password>

to become root:
su
<it will prompt for root password>

to change ownership of file/directories:
chown <options> <user>:<group> <files>

to change permissions:
chmod <options> <permissions to change to> <files>

however, you should avoid root at all costs. just using sudo <command>
should do the trick. I never actually su to root, except on the very,
very rare occasion where i want a root shell.


On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 01:00 +0530, Cheatah 0#@!^ wrote:
> Inspite of me being the root user of my kubuntu 6.06, i dont have the
> permission to access or change all the files in my kubuntu, like
> /boot/grub/menu.lst and many others.
> How can i change this so that i have the permission to access or
> change each and every file in my system??
> 
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Matthew Nicholson <sjoeboo at sjoeboo.com>
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