Add root permissions to user...

[buccaneere]

How do I add root permissions to my user account?

I want full permissions for all computers in my house, without having to get up and go to the other room and change permissions for the file, then go back to the other room again.

I just created a partition, as THIS user, THIS machine, rebooted, and cannot create a folder on the partition I just created. UGH. No more of this stuff...

Anyone point me in the right direction?

[hatebreed]

go to settings/administration/users and groups, this should allow you to change whatever you want. however not keeping a user and root user isn't very secure, so do this at your own risk.

[MikeTbob]

I just created a partition, as THIS user, THIS machine, rebooted, and cannot create a folder on the partition I just created. UGH. No more of this stuff...

Anyone point me in the right direction?

You can set permissions permanently in the /etc/fstab file. This is a line I use to access my Music collection. Anyone can read/write the partition. Notice the umask=0

/dev/sda5		 /media/music	vfat	 	auto,defaults,umask=0 0 0

See the command

man fstab

Use Q to quit.

[buccaneere]

go to settings/administration/users and groups, this should allow you to change whatever you want. .

I found that GUI, but I didn't see exactly what to set, that makes me digital boss on these machines.

An occasional password prompt is not a bother...

[hatebreed]

/dev/sda5 /media/music vfat auto,defaults,umask=0 0 0

I had to use this to get read write on a fat partition

/dev/hda1   /media/windows   vfat   user,fmask=0111,dmask=0000   0   0

otherwise it wouldn't gvie write permission

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Au...ountPartitions

check this out for the full rundown