carnt login as root in terminal
 

hi,

i have had Ubuntu working for about a week now after moving from suse and i have noticed when i type

su root

it asks for my password so i put it in and it says

authorization failed
sorry


but i know its the right password

any help ???

thanks in advance

Ubuntu does not use a classical unix security model. You need to use sudo in order to run commands with root privileges e.g. "sudo somecommand". If you want to use the classic model, then you need to do "sudo passwd root" in order to give root a password.

o ok thanks :) i feel so dumb

Actually, there's no need to activate the root account. If you get tired of typing sudo for every command, just do and this will give you a root terminal.

thanks helped me a lot :)