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Old January 9th, 2006, 08:43 PM
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Cd to root level

How do I logout of the current user I am and get into the root level of my system?

Here's what it shows me in teh terminal window

justinyoung:~ justinyoung$


I want to get above this level so I can make changes to my webserver I have running.

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su
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su -l root
The second command also loads the environment for the user root.
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