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I'm new to Ubuntu OS, recently I'm installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on my system. I'm trying to enable my root user by terminal using following commands :

sudo passwd root

and then :

sudo passwd -u root

It gives me a message :

passwd: password expiry information changed

But when I'm restarted my system it did not shows ROOT account for login. Is I made any mistakes.

I referred following link : In this link they give the answer to enable root user, but it is not working in my case. How to enable root login?

Please any kind of help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

What if I want to install any software for all users, without using terminal and commands, how can I do that ?

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Ganesh Aher
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For the most of Ubuntu usage, you do not actually need to enable the root user. In case you want act as root in a terminal, just switch using:

sudo -i

and type the password. To revert to your user, just type exit

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