Knowledge check

For the following exercises, open up your Terminal and try to solve the following tasks:

1. Switch to the root user.
2. Change the password for the root user.
3. Switch to user elliot and land in /home/elliot.
4. Now switch to user root but preserve the current working directory /home- /elliot.

True or false

1. The root user is the most powerful user in Linux.
2. Using the su command without specifying a username will switch you to the root user.
3. We use the passroot command to change the password for the root user.