add superuser to a user

[William]

On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 00:31 -0300, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> Em Domingo 08 Novembro 2009, William escreveu:
> > I'm the only one that use my computer I would like to know how to add
> > super user access to my user so I do not have to run sudo and to
> >  install software ?
> > 
> 
> That's not a good idea. Running a GUI (and many other softwares) as root 
> may open security breaches which will make it easier for an attacker to 
> compromise your system. Also, it makes easier for yourself to 
> inadvertently / unknowingly run software that can damage your system.
> So, using sudo is useful to protect your system from yourself, as well 
> as from others.
> If you still want to do this anyway, you need to change your user ID to 
> 0, which is root UID.  Edit /etc/passwd (using sudo) and change the 
> number right after the second ":" at the line of your user account to 0 
> (probably it is currently 1000, if this is the user you created while 
> installing the system).
> Again, it's not advisable to do this.
> 
> []'s
> Marcelo
> 
I do not this I will do it then ?