if you want to change to root user enter su or su root at the command line and it will ask you to enter the root password, after you enter it the command prompt will change to root and your the root user. Note that your path statements are still set to whatever your normal users paths are. So if you want to check your NIC cards for example, you would have to enter the full path /sbin/ifconfig, if you enter ifconfig you will get a error saying command not found. If you just want to run a sinle task as a root users enter su -c "<command>" and that will allow you to run a single command as a root user and return you to your normal account when the command exits. Please note that if the command has spaces in it, it will have to put inside of quotes "" you the shell will think that command syntax ended at the first space.
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