Super-user

Hello, i tryed Suse 10.2 yesterday and i when i wanted to install my graphic card drivers it told me to be a super-user account user to install. I want to know how to create a super-user account for the installation
I'm on Gnome.

Thanks

Hello, i tryed Suse 10.2 yesterday and i when i wanted to install my graphic card drivers it told me to be a super-user account user to install. I want to know how to create a super-user account for the installation
I'm on Gnome.

Thanks
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The superuser account is already there: it is called 'root'. I think a quick read of some manual would be necessary.

Most users, when they want super user (ie root) permissions, will open a konsole, and in the konsole type "su" (followed by entering the root password). Typing "man su" will provide information on the "su" command.

OK, but i searched on manuals and i didn't find anything relating of it. I'll see that. If you have links to some manuals if would be nice to give them to me Thanks.

Ok, here's a quick start: http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensu..._gnomequick.pdf

And here you can find more docs:
http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse102/

You just have to do as oldcpu said.
Super user here means Administrator/Root (these two are the same) privileged account.
So open a terminal and type:

su

Then enter your root password, and you'll have admin privileges.

OK, thanks

Some simple things re: the super user account. Typically, with Linux, when you open a konsole, you will see a window, and inside the window will be a text prompt, that looks something like
heymryoshuz@pcname:~>

Note the " ~ " indicates you are in heymryoshuz's home directory (which is /home/heymroshuz). And the "heymryoshuz@pcname indicates you are user "heymryoshuz" on the computer "pcname".

Now, if you type "su" and enter the root password, the prompt will change to something like:
pcname:/home/heymroshuz #

Note the prompt changed from ">" to "#" indicating you have administrator permissions. And you have administrator permissions on the computer "pcname", and you are currently in the directory "/home/heymroshuz". Note that /home/heymroshuz is used instead of " ~ ".

Some simple things re: the super user account. Typically, with Linux, when you open a konsole, you will see a window, and inside the window will be a text prompt, that looks something like
heymryoshuz@pcname:~>

Note the " ~ " indicates you are in heymryoshuz's home directory (which is /home/heymroshuz). And the "heymryoshuz@pcname indicates you are user "heymryoshuz" on the computer "pcname".

Now, if you type "su" and enter the root password, the prompt will change to something like:
pcname:/home/heymroshuz #

Note the prompt changed from ">" to "#" indicating you have administrator permissions. And you have administrator permissions on the computer "pcname", and you are currently in the directory "/home/heymroshuz". Note that /home/heymroshuz is used instead of " ~ ".
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but this is only how bashrc is pre-configured. I would not use this as a way of distinguishing between root and user.

for example I changed user prompt in bashrc:
PS1="\[\e[36m\]\u\[\e[39m\][\[\e[38;1m\]\w\[\e[m\]]$ "
you can change $ to -> or # or :

Hello, thanks for explaining this. But the thing is that i can't enter the password . I type su in the terminal and when i ask me to enter the password i can't write it . What's the problem ? Thanks again.

what do you mean that you can't write password?