The Linux superuser is called "root." There is very little root cannot do. This is why it is a Very Bad Idea to do anything as root unless absolutely necessary. Use sudo instead with commands that need it.
SU allows users to use programs with the security privileges of the superuser. This gives the user a huge amount of configurability with windows, mac and linux.
From the command line, always use sudo. For instance:sudo sh installer.shorsudo ./installer.binNote: If you don't have (don't want to use) sudo, then just: su -c './installer'
To change your own password, enter passwd at the terminal. To change someone else's password, provided you have superuser privileges, enter passwd [username], substituting the correct user name to be changed.
The userid of the superuser is always 0. See the `id` command: `id -u root` yields 0.
There is no root account in Windows XP. Nor is there an account that is a "superuser" account in the traditional sense.
There is a command called useradd in Linux which you can use to add a new user. Here's an example 1. Add the user (you need to be a superuser to run this command) # useradd test 2. Set the password # passwd test Changing password for user test. New UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
In Linux, dzdo is a command used to execute a command with elevated privileges, similar to sudo. It is typically part of the "do-as" (dzdo) utility, which allows users to run commands as another user, usually the superuser, while providing a more straightforward configuration than sudo. It is often used in environments where users need temporary elevated permissions without requiring full administrative rights.
Although it is highly not recommended that you use the "su" option, as inexperienced users can possibly cause permanent damage to the system, you can sign on as a superuser by typing "sudo su" in the Terminal and entering your admin password.As an alternative, use "sudo " instead.Answer:If you absolutely must do this (which is unlikely), you may also need the superuser (root) environment in which case you would use the "su -" command. Invoked this way, the "su -" command will also import root's environment from /root. Please heed the author above though, if you aren't completely sure about what you're doing, you may easily completely hose up your system when su'd to root, with or without root's environment.
I assume you are asking about the superuser account - which is the administrator account of root.
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On any system someone must be able to kill any runaway program, purge corrupted files, reset passwords when users forget them, remove users' permission to use the system, and a myriad of other system management tasks.On UNIX this special user is known as superuser or root (not to be confused with the root directory). Superuser can override file security and do almost anything he/she wants on the system (he/she cannot see your password, since it is encrypted, but he/she can change it). In fact, any user with a useridof 0 is a superuser. Naturally, such users should always have a password.It is not good practice for the system administrator to always logon as superuser. It is too easy to make a trivial mistake and damage the system, perhaps by rm * in an important directory. Instead, logon as a regular user, then switch to superuser with the su command when you need it.
I presume you mean writing shell scripts that operate under the super user account - scripts are written for any reason to help automate tasks and make them much less error prone than issuing commands as a user. Running as the superuser merely means that the commands in the shell script require superuser priviledge to execute.