add superuser to a user

[William]

     A. On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 09:47 -0300, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> Em Domingo 08 Novembro 2009, William escreveu:
> > 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 ?
> > 
> 
> Sorry, I do not understand what you mean. Please rephrase.
> 
> []'s
> Marcelo
What I was saying if it would be that bad to set me as super user I do not think I will then