get rid of that irritating 'sudo' in Ubuntu

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Many may know how to, but those who are tired of having to 'sudo' all the time and don't know how to enable the root user password in Ubuntu its quick and easy:

Open a console window

Code:
sudo passwd root

This will ask you for the new current and new passwords. Thereafter you can either log in as root or
Code:
su root
or
Code:
su -
and work as root user to install/update or any other task you need root privileges for
 
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