How do I add root permissions to my user account?

I want full permissions for all computers in my house, without having to get up and go to the other room and change permissions for the file, folder, drive, directory, computer, etc., then go back to the other room again.

I just created a partition, as THIS user, THIS machine, rebooted, and cannot create a folder on the partition I just created. UGH. No more of this stuff... I guess at the very least, I'll still have to log onto each machine for this?

Anyone point me in the right direction?

It's not totally clear what problem you are trying to solve.

First, root privileges are pretty much independent of remote configuration---eg, you need remote access for the latter, regardless of what changes you are making.

Why not "su" to root when you want to change something? And, as needed, log into the other machines using SSH.

Trying to solve?

Except for an occasional prompt for a password, I want NO questions asked. None. Ever - for ANYthing. Folder creation permission, file read/write permission, etc., etc., etc.

Playing '20 Questions' is for customer service for the bank, or tech support, or calling the doctor's office, etc. I'm just not into the same game with all my computers.

Anybody with ideas about these permissions/privileges?

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somehow there could be the group root
and add user to the group root

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Are you the only user, is your house locked and alarmed, AND do you avoid keeping any sensitve info on the machines? If "yes" to all three, then just run as the root user. Otherwise, I would recommend sticking with normal procedures.

Please do not give advice like that. It weakens system security, it is the wrong way of doing things and completely unnecessary.

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You don't and you shouldn't.


That's mount permissions and no reason for requiring unprivileged users to have root privileges all of the time. Need root account privileges for unprivileged user ops? Use Sudo. Else use the "wheel" group (or /etc/suauth where applicable) if you want to weaken security by allowing an unprivileged user to 'su' to root. Do note this is not about choice, freedom or personal preference but about basic OS architecture as it was derived from UNIX: please use GNU/Linux as it is intended to be used.

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Good advice. Sounds like something Microsoft would say. Or government.

Just out of curiosity, are you pro gun, or anti gun? You don't have to answer if you don't want...

In this house, I'm the only user. Digital BOSS Uh hUH.

Perhaps logging in as root user, which is a pain - log out, log back in - IS MORE SECURE, since networking is disabled when logging in as root user.

That was not a bad idea by developers...

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Taking into account your previous threads it's remarkable to find you even took the time to reply. And your response perfectly shows that people know what they want but only few know what they need.

Since when is security a bad idea? And what distro has no network access as root? If you wanted there is no reason you couldn't run as root 100% of the time (other than the security implications) and never create an unprivileged account.

I still don't get what it is you are trying to do that you need admin rights all the time. If you want to have an easy sharing setup just mount that partition on a folder that has chmod 777. Once a system is up and running with all the partitions/folders setup, software installed there should really not be any prompts for normal usage.

If you are having permission problems on remote shares, my guess is that you don't have permissions and ownerships configured correctly. If you are using NFS to share directories between computers, you may not be using the same UID for your regular user between the computers.
Using the "user" mount option, for example, you would be able to mount an NFS share as a regular user. You need to be the owner to enter the mounted share. If you have an external FAT32 or NTFS drive, using UUID=<the uuid #> in /etc/fstab along with the uid=, gid= and the user option, you can mount it as a regular user and have the ownership and permissions set properly.

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