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  Root Access with sudo and gksudo

  Posted: June 22nd, 2006, 5:24am CDT by Peter

  ubuntu unlike many distributions does not normally have a user accessible root account. You are supposed to use one of these two commands when you need root access. sudo is for when you are in the terminal and need root access and gksudo is when you are in the GUI and need root access, for example you can press alt+f2 and type "gksudo appname". If you need a root account for some reason, an