It wont let me open the flash drive to get the files I need. Anyone know the line of code I need to put me as root. I would like to stay root.
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Ubuntu is designed so you don't need to be root; instead you do
sudo -i
inside a terminal emulator window which bestows the rights of root.
However, it's safer to use
sudo *commmandtoexecute*
as needed; for example, if you want to open the file manager in Ubuntu with the rights of root, do
sudo nautilus
A good explanation of the options available with sudo, can be found in the answers at What are the differences between "su", "sudo -s", "sudo -i", "sudo su"?
And, this is done for user safety and administrator sanity. root is just too powerful and it's far too easy to break a system and/or destroy data to be in root all the time.
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