Boot Up Into full privledge

[slowhands36]

is there a way to set ubuntu to were it boots up into full root access to everything.Iam only user and want to be able to mount other drives and stuff after bootup.

[phillw]

is there a way to set ubuntu to were it boots up into full root access to everything.Iam only user and want to be able to mount other drives and stuff after bootup.

Hi and welcome to the forums,

you can get drives to auto-mount on boot up (by far the easiest way of doing things) using Storage Device Manager (it's under the system tab, either Administration [I'm pretty sure] or Preferences)

As for the run as root, head over here and see why it isn't done --> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=716201

It does take a while to get used to, but I fully understand and endorse the reasoning.

As a little helper (if it's not mentioned there), when you issue something like

apt-get this_horrendously_long_list_of_programmes

and it says 'permission denied' - instead of putting a brick through the screen, take a breath and simply type

sudo !!

That will cause the last line to be re-issued, with sudo at the start of it :p

(I spend 1/2 my life issuing sudo !!)

Regards,

Phill.