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Can you enable root from the command line?
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Or do you have to do it only from the gui?
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Enabling root amounts to just setting a password for the account. Thus ...
[Tom@Poopie]~: passwd root
Changing password for root.
password for Tom: [type your password here]
New password: [type a password for root here]
Retype new password: [repeat above]
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Nope. If you think of all the ways possible to change a password for an OS X user account, then you've thought of all the ways to enable root. 
For the command line, I can really only come up with "passwd". What is it that you need to do, exactly? Maybe I can find another way to do what you want.
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Originally Posted by alphasubzero949
Why not just use sudo?
Yep, if your current user is an admin, use sudo passwd root. For the record, and anyone reading this after the fact, users in the "admin" group are allowed to issue commands with root's effective user id (id == 0) by typing in THEIR own password.
Code:
[theman@thefro: ~]$ sudo id
Password:
uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel),1(daemon),2(kmem),3(sys),4(tty),20(staff),29(certusers),5(operator),80(admin)
See? 
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"passwd root" > "sudo passwd root" ;-)
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Originally Posted by Tomchu
"passwd root" > "sudo passwd root" ;-)
A few less characters... 
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If you need a root shell use sudo /bin/bash
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Originally Posted by Tyler McAdams
Any other way?
Yes, there is a command line interface to NetInfo.
But enabling root is entirely unnecessary as there is sudo and su. I have never had a need to enable root.
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Originally Posted by __^^__
If you need a root shell use sudo /bin/bash
Or sudo -s .
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Originally Posted by Rainy Day
Yes, there is a command line interface to NetInfo.
But enabling root is entirely unnecessary as there is sudo and su. I have never had a need to enable root.
Excellent! That's exaclty what I'm looking for... how do you invoke it?
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How do you invoke the command-line interface to Netinfo, you mean? It's niutil. If you're asking about sudo, you just type sudo followed by a command.
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niutill is what I meant. thanks!
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There's also the dsenableroot tool.
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