Setting up sudo

Next, we will emerge sudo, which will allow you to do things as a super user from your own account.

emerge -av app-admin/sudo

Once sudo is installed, you may have to run

etc-update

Now we'll need to add your account to the list of sudoers.

nano -w /etc/sudoers

Find the line that says

root    ALL=(ALL) ALL

and just below add

<your username>		ALL=(ALL) ALL

and use ctrl-x to exit then save the file. A note about sudo- you can run any command using sudo, so long as you enter "sudo" before the command. Sudo will then ask you for a password. Now that sudo is installed, log out of the root account.

logout

now enter your new credentials to log into the system.

login: <username>
password: <your password>