Why can't I access super-user mode with su?

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Why can't I access super-user mode with su?

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I just have managed to install Lubuntu 12.04. Now I want to do some things in the terminal like installing and configuring the Apache and a Lamp-system among other things.

I come from Open SUSE world and there, I usually get access to the super-user-mode in the terminal by typing the command su.

But if I do that in Lubuntu, I am asked for the password and when I enter my password that I use to access the system, I get this error message (translated from German):

su: error with the Authentication

What should I do now?

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Ubuntu uses sudo instead of an explicit root account. You can log in as root directly with sudo su, if that's more comfortable for you.

See Advantages and Disadvantages of sudo for why Ubuntu does this.

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