Question on the "superuser"

[Joel Goguen]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:35:37 +0800 (CST), lu sy <bakut2002 at yahoo.com.sg>
wrote:
> Hi
> 
>   During the installation of ubuntu, i was asked to set my username and
> password. Does this mean that this is the password for the "superuser"?
> 
>   Every time I log in using this username and password, does this make me
> the superuser? Does this mean that when i am in the Terminal, i am
already
> at the "root" ?
> 
>   I am the only person using this computer.
> 
>   Thanks
> 
>   bakut
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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No, that's your user password.  You aren't logged in as root, you're logged
in as you.  Ubuntu disables root by default and sets the first user created
as allowed to use sudo for all commands.  See
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo for more info.

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