[ Thanks to Falko
Timme for this link. ]
“2 Root User: On Linux Mint there is only one user with
administrative rights which is the so called root user. However
every system user can log him- or herself in as root to execute
commands that need administrative rights to be run. I am going to
show some of them in this tutorial, so what you need to do first is
to log yourself in as root. Open Terminal and enter…”