When a poster is using Debian, Slackware, CentOS or other such systems, I suggest giving commands as either:
1) Including "as normal user" or "as root" in the description; or
2) As how they will appear in a terminal: preceded by & or #.
Preceding every command with sudo and following every command with the root password is the Ubuntu way of doing things (sudo abuse). Other systems, using the normal Linux procedure, log into the root account with su. In fact, with Debian sudo is not enabled when installed. Using either of my two suggestions leaves it to the person asking for advice to decide how to enter the commands.
