Terminal and Root user

Hi, I am new to Mac, just bought a Macmini.
1. I was trying to lanch multiple Terminal session, it seems I can not. Can I run multiple terminal or xterm etc?
2. How do I switch to root, or what is the default root password? I was saying there are some process under root account.
I am an Unix guys for years.
Thanks a lot.
Howard

1. I was trying to lanch multiple Terminal session, it seems I can not. Can I run multiple terminal or xterm etc?
you just press command +N and it will open a new terminal shell. You can run many processes ontop of each other in different shells.
2. How do I switch to root, or what is the default root password? I was saying there are some process under root account.
There is no default root password, you have to enable and create the root password. This is easy to do use the following command.
sudo passwd root
Then to change to root in your terminal use the command
su
However in most cases you don't need to login to your terminal as root as you can just use the 'sudo' command.

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