[colug-432] Change Root Password

[Rob Funk]

On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 10:39:49 AM Rick Hornsby wrote:
> Side note: basically, never log in as root.

Agreed.

> Unless the system is so
> borked there is no other way to get in. Log in as yourself, and use sudo
> to execute administrative tasks that require root privs.  In some rare
> cases, switching to root for a few minutes is easier -
> 
> $ sudo su - root

Easier: sudo su -
(root is the default.)
OR
sudo -i

Or, if you want something closer to your usual environment, but as root:
sudo su
OR even better:
sudo -s

The latter is what I normally do, when I'm not just prefixing individual 
commands with "sudo".