How to get root shell in Ubuntu GNU/Linux

Posted by mypapit on 9 Mar 2006 in GNU/Linux, Tips & Guides, Ubuntu/Debian
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A lot of my friends has been asking me about this very question, “how to get root shell in Ubuntu”. Naturally I would ask them to use the “sudo” command as it suffice to execute any task restricted to root only. It is explicit, and it is safer than using root account, that’s why ubuntu never prompted root password during installation.

However for some reasons, some people would prefer a full root shell instead of using “sudo” command. And here is how to obtain root shell access in Ubuntu GNU/Linux.

Method 1

From Desktop, launch the “Terminal” application, accesible through clicking Applications->Accesories->Terminal.

Execute this command,

mypapit@enterprise:~$ sudo -s
Password:

Enter your user password, and then you’ll get the root shell “#”.

Method 2

Same as method 1 but execute this command,

mypapit@enterprise:~$ sudo su
Password:

Enter your user password, and then you’ll get the root shell “#”.

So there you go, that’s how to get root shell access within your Ubuntu GNU/Linux. But as for me, I think I can settle with the sudo command, as I haven’t found a situation where I need to use the root shell explicitly.

Good luck !


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11 smashing comments for this post.

  1. Planet Malaysia Said:
    March 9th, 2006 at 11:26 pm

    You are not encourage to login as root…..

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  3. Alan Said:
    August 26th, 2006 at 4:12 pm

    3rd way:

    sudo bash

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  6. Apo Said:
    November 6th, 2007 at 7:01 am

    Very nice :-) first hit at google and it helps…
    needed the root shell for installing vmware tools :-)

  7. nirmal Said:
    May 6th, 2009 at 11:52 am

    can anyone tell that how can a program is compiled and run using ubuntu 8.04?

  8. zahurul Said:
    October 31st, 2009 at 9:54 am

    we can use

    sudo -i

    then just put ur password..

    thanks

  9. p.l.dave Said:
    May 3rd, 2010 at 5:20 am

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  10. val Said:
    June 5th, 2010 at 5:29 pm

    Thank you, very useful *thumbsup*

    I tried to echo-append something to /etc/ca-certificates.conf using sudo and got “permission denied”.

  11. Prags Said:
    October 2nd, 2010 at 1:06 am

    same here.Even i got permission denied. How to overcome it?

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