I have recently installed Ubuntu 14.04.
I would like to create a root user along with the admin account that was setup during installation.
The default admin account does not have a root privilege.
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1You do not need to unlock root. You can use sudo instead. What are you trying to do? – Pilot6 Aug 16 '15 at 11:06
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If you start gparted, you will be asked for the password and you will have all privileges to create partitions. But you probably have problems, when creating partitions from a running system. – Pilot6 Aug 16 '15 at 11:49
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i was able to sudo from terminal and perform intended task. – Avinash Mvrick Aug 18 '15 at 10:20
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Any user in the 'sudo' group should have this privilege.
You can make a terminal root (if you're feeling brave and rebellious) by typing sudo bash but there is really no need.
Other users can be added to this group thusly sudo adduser <username> sudo
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I would like to create a root user along with the admin account that was set-up during installation.
Admin and Root are one and the same on Ubuntu, which means that this:
The default admin account does not have a root privilege.
is wrong.
It really depends what you want to do with the root privilege.
If you need to edit a file, you need to use sudo in the terminal - for example this command will open a file called "file.txt" from root's home area:
sudo -i gedit /root/file.txt
If you are going to be running lots of commands, use sudo su first, then you don't need to keep typing sudo.
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yes i got that concept now,one needs to understand the folder and privilege structure first. i was able to perform as root user from by running sudo passwd root and got the temporary root privilege, i was able to make a new folder on mount and changed the access level on that folder. – Avinash Mvrick Aug 16 '15 at 12:29
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@AvinashMvrick if this solved your question, please click the grey tick below the down arrow! – Tim Aug 16 '15 at 12:29