login in root account automatically

roei86 · 11-18-2012, 01:45 AM

Hi guys. I've got Ubuntu, and 99% of my commands require sudo. i would like to save me this time and just login automatically through root account, i prefer without user/password at start, but if its not posiible its also OK, its a vmware, so i ca always just hit "suspend".
so, how do i set the default account as root?
thanks!

jschiwal · 11-18-2012, 02:08 AM

The root account is locked in Ubuntu. You can run "sudo bash" in leu of "su -" if you need to run consecutive commands as root. Don't even consider running the desktop as root.

shivaa · 11-18-2012, 02:24 AM

Now a days, direct root or admin login isn't supported (not only in Linux but in Windows too), but you can login using your user account, and then you can switch to root/admin.
You can then run commands using sudo. For example:

Code:

sudo <command_name>

Further you can do following to switch to root user and to get root privilages.

Code:

sudo su - root

TobiSGD · 11-18-2012, 05:18 AM

The correct way to get a root shell with sudo is

Code:

sudo -i

Logging in to the GUI as root is neither supported nor recommended or reasonable and usually something only demanded by inexperienced admins that are not aware of the security risks of doing that.