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Make Regular User automatically Root on Ubuntu (i.e., make Ubuntu behave like Windows XP)

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Mar 15, 202611242 views
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I'm getting annoyed by having to use sudo on my Ubuntu machine. The following are some of the reasons why: I open some file owned by root, but I forget to open it with sudo. Now, I make a bunch of changes to the file, only to realize at the end when I try to save it that I can't. Now I have to re-o…

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Fix for: Make Regular User automatically Root on Ubuntu (i.e., make Ubuntu behave like Windows XP)

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If you really want to 'be like Win XP', why not unlock the root account & do everything as root? Sudo is there to prevent you from trashing your system inadvertently. It is especially easy to screw up your X config as root. Backup often. Less drasti…

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