new to ubuntu; have a few questions

[Dwain Alford]

On 11/9/06, Eamonn Sullivan <eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You can make yourself root in any terminal window by typing:
>
> sudo -i
>
> And then entering your own password. Be careful with this, however.
> It's easy to make a (irreversible) mistake.
>
>
as a "former" windows user i enjoyed admin privileges to do what i needed to
do with the computer.  this is what i want to do.  this command will do it
for me?  before i do this, would you please explain what the irreversible
mistake is?
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