Elementary OS Terminal Tutorial for Beginners

Administrating

8. 8. Getting Admin Power

   Last How to Get the Admin Super-Powers.

   To Login as SuperUser:

   sudo su

   If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo

   Then to Logout:

   exit

   To Protect your System from the potential Damage of an Hazardous Crazy Command Execution the Logout should be executed every Time your Setup is Achieved!
   Finally, to Execute a Single Command as SuperUser:

   sudo su -c '[myCommand]'

   Or:

   sudo [myCommand]

   For Example to Edit the Repository Source file with nano CLI Editor:

   sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

   Ctrl+x to Save Changes and/or Quit ;)

Congratulations, you are now fully Initiated to the awesome Elementary OS Command Line Shell. ;)