Newbie Help - run as root

[Donut]

I have been using RH for a couple of hours and I have a problem, I was trying to open a pakage and I was told I have to run as root. How do I do this?

Thanks in advance
Donut

[paradox]

you can either login as root, which isn't really recommended unless you really have to, or you can use a command called super user.... it goes like this

>su
Password: *****
root@blah>

now you have root access...atleast enough to install your packages and do a few other things...this is all I ever do, it is much safer that way as well...I rarely log in as root.

Aragorn

P.S. Welcome to GLO!

[Spot]

>su
Password: *****
root@blah>

h4><0r!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3w3 r00t3d &#124;\/&#124;y b0><!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:P

[Donut]

Thanks alot for that Aragon, helped heaps, man, I hate being a newbie again, but with the price of Win2k and WinXP, it looks like Linux is the way of the future.

And Spot, can I have whatever your on?
Thanks Spot, I think?

[paradox]

h4><0r!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3w3 r00t3d &#124;\/&#124;y b0><!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:P

Wasn't that hard, Oscar told me the password was halb! LOL oops, did I say that out loud?

Aragorn

[JimH]

A little addition to using su

When you login as root using: su
you have to type the full path to run any programs that are normally only in the root users path, i.e. /sbin, /usr/sbin directories.

If you login as root using: su -
It will make the shell a login shell and you will not have to type the full path for programs in the root users path.

Jim H