how i can log as root

[menour]

hi every body
how i can log as root on redhat 9
and how i can istall prog (not rpm) thank you for help

[dr_tux]

whay need to log as root?use "su" command instead.
for non rpm packages ,do you mean tarballs ( *.tgz , *.tbz2)? if you meean this uncompress it with the command
tar xvf package.tgz
gunzip(or bzunzip) package.gz(or .bz2)
then
cd package
read the README and INSTALL files and follow the instructions

[menour]

thank you very much