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How to become/enable the 'root' account in Mac OS X

Open the Terminal application

Become administrator if you are not one:

hera:~ user$ su - administrator
Password:

Change the root password:

hera:~ administrator$ sudo passwd root
				
We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

	#1) Respect the privacy of others.
	#2) Think before you type.
	#3) With great power comes great responsibility.

Password:
Changing password for root.
New password:
Retype new password:

Become root:
hera:~ administrator$ su - Password: hera:~ root#
That's it, you've just logged in to the Mac OS X root account :p