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There are two user like "root" and a "normal" user In my Ubuntu . Now I want to give permanent root permission to the "normal" user without losing any data . I actually work with "normal" user for a long time . And now I want to move "normal" user to "root" user.

But the problem is that when I log in with "root" user then all the previous data such as application+browser cache + etc are missing .That's why I want to give permanent root permission to the "normal" user . How can I do that?

Sayeed Hossain
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The normal way to make a user an administrator on an Ubuntu system is to add them to the sudo group so they can use sudo to execute things as root when needed.

# usermod -a -G sudo normal

That adds the user normal to the sudo group. After that user logs in again they should be able to use sudo.

grifferz
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add string username ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL to file /etc/sudoers where username is login of "normal" user or add user to "sudo" group as mentioned above

Joe Ford
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