Best solution for silly error?

[GaryTaig]

On 27/07/14 03:59, Robert Heller wrote:

> At Sun, 27 Jul 2014 00:34:05 +1000 taig at melbpc.org.au  wrote:
>>> Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid
>>> Initially I ran with one user, with admin privileges etc. Since I always
>>> had to enter the main admin password to authenticate some activities I
>>> was of the belief that I was generally NOT operating as ROOT.
[SNIP]

> With Ubuntu (and I believe Debian in general), 'root' does not have a password
> and it is not possible to log in as root.  Instead one *has* to use sudo.
> With sudo, you prefix a priviledged command with 'sudo' and it asks your for
> *your* password.  Once authenticated, sudo won't ask you for your password
> again for some time period as a 'convience' in case you need to execute a
> series of priviledged commands within a short period of time.
[SNIP]

Many thanks, Robert.
I've been doing precisely that for some time and suddenly when I needed 
to think about the facts of the matter, doubts set in...deep doubts :-)

Take care
GaryT