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Root (#)vs user($) name conflict?

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Long story short I have setup my user on my pre loaded OS Dabian as pi Which would seem to been the root name also, so I do not seem to be able to login as root.

My question is : Can I recover this or will I have to start again with a fresh image?  Having some difficulty with win32Diskimager just now all in good time I guess.

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  • The default user "pi" is not really the same as the "root" user, but is an admin user that can do any command as root using sudo prefix, or can act as root by doing what Michael said.

     

    It is NOT a good idea to run as root all the time, because one typing error could possibly erase all files on the system.  But it is perfectly safe to run as user pi, where all you can erase is you own files, as long as you are extra careful what you type when using sudo.

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  • The default user "pi" is not really the same as the "root" user, but is an admin user that can do any command as root using sudo prefix, or can act as root by doing what Michael said.

     

    It is NOT a good idea to run as root all the time, because one typing error could possibly erase all files on the system.  But it is perfectly safe to run as user pi, where all you can erase is you own files, as long as you are extra careful what you type when using sudo.

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