- Open System Preferences, select Users & Groups
- Click the lock and enter your password to unlock the panel
- Click Login Options, then click the Join button
- Click Open Directory Utility button
- Now go up to the Edit menu and select Enable Root User
- Enter a password and voila, root is enabled
- Later, after the rest is done, you need to retrace these steps and select Disable Root User
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Enable root user on MAC (Lion and Mountain Lion) via GUI.
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This is useful when you lost sudo permition by accident.