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kiddo1972
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« on: February 08, 2010, 06:21:45 PM »
I installed Mint and It created me as a temporary user with no privileges. How do I change to a root user with admin privileges?
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TheUnixGuy
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« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2010, 12:22:54 AM »
Hello,

Myself never tried Mint but then you always have sudo. Not a very good idea to mess around the desktop of root.

If you need to add more users, use useradd.
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