How to escalate privilege to root user on Raspberry pi Easy!

8, Dec 2020 | Raspberry Pi | 0 comments

Why escalate to Root user? and what does this solve?.

It prevents the standard pi user from continually having to enter the sudo command when doing root tasks like updating upgrading and other administrative tasks.

This is short and sweet and takes one command. To escalate to root user and stay as root user use the following command:

sudo -i

To leave sudo user and return to pi user you can type the following:

exit

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