Hi! I'm new to UBUNTU!

[Graham Todd]

On Sat, 29 May 2010 08:10:10 -0400
calcpage at aol.com uttered these words:

> Thanx for stating the "bleeding obvious," but I did use "sudo."
> 
> I'm serious, please state the obvious as I am new to Ubuntu!
> 
> BTW, I find it strange that I can't use "su."  Can I login as root?
> 
> TIA,
> A. Jorge Garcia
> http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com
> 
> Teacher & Professor
> Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science
> Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College

The su or superuser account gives root (admin) permissions when you use
it.  At the inception of Ubuntu, it was decided to use the 'sudo'
command to obtain root permissions as this reduced the possibility of
of root permissions being misused (as I understood matters).  Also, you
can't login as root straight from login screen.

However, if you give the user root a password you should be able to
login as root, but this would be putting your system in danger.  Much
better to sign into your user account and enable root permissions as
you need them.

If you give the command :

sudo su

every command that follows will have root permissions.  This may be
what you want, but it is not to be encouraged unless you understand the
dangers.

-- 
Graham Todd