Enable root account in Ubuntu?

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After my recent experience with broken su and sudo commands in a failed system upgrade, I realized that although disabling the root account has many advantages, one of the disadvantage is that I can’t login as root in the terminal when I’m physically in front of the system. This is a major issue if su,… Read more »

su and sudo

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This post explains what happens when su, sudo, and their variants are executed.