Bobs': "Hey Peter, You've been missing alot of work lately..."
Peter: "I wouldn't say I have been missing it Bob."

[user1@localhost]$ sudo
-----------To have this ^ automatically entered each time:
Which files would I need to configure?

I know I'm going to get howled down and set on fire for what I'm about to say, but the easiest way to do what you want to do is to simply assign a password to the root account.

When you know you need to a do a heap of things as root, just become root and do them. Much easier in my worthless opinion.

how about "sudo -i" or "sudo -s"
both give you a root shell without having to set a root password, look at "man sudo"

--MacHamster
Notice how I didn't flame you

Speaking from experience:

Ubuntu systems HATE having their root password set. Last time I tried that the necessary tweaking to get everything to work again was enough to make me reverse my position about setting the root password in Ubuntu.

If you want to learn from experience (not reccommended) use $ sudo passwd, or maybe it was $ sudo passwd root... I can't remember.

In short: deal with the sudo thing. Setting the root password isn't worth it. Also, you might consider adding yourself to the group root. I tried it, and now I can open Synaptic, KPackage, and Adept without needing to type a password.

Hope you find something that works for you!

Awesome!

And yes my reply is off-topic. Sorry!

But this one is not!

I'm starting to like the sudo thing a lot. I feel safe using my computer all the time. Whereas when I'm using my ms box, I'm always nervous about spyware or virus notifications and such.

Yah, I do miss all the virus and malware... Using the computer just isn't as exciting and dangerous as it used to be before I switched to Linux. I hear that virus writers don't support Linux yet... pity. They don't even support Wine. What a bummer!

I think I'll write a linux virus now: $ sudo rm -rf /

Oh, wait. That'll only work on Ubuntu workstations... and you have to input your root password... man, we Linux people miss out on a lot of the fun, don't we?

Its fairly easy to setup a root account and have things work properly. You could do
After that you can then disable sudo by running visudo as root and commenting out the section that allows all users in the admin group to run all system commands. This method has always worked fine for me. If you set a root password and still keep using sudo, I have noticed that some apps will ask you for your password instead of roots password (which may or may not be desirable), so I prefer disabling sudo and going with the classical root account.

binary_y2k2 has good suggestions, so try those first before changing to a classical root account.