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10.5: Enable the root user
Authored by: tom_b on Mon, Oct 29 2007 at 12:27PM PDT

Or "sudo bash" etc.

I occasionally want a shell when I want to run a sequence of commands as root. I've set my sudoers to ask me for my password every time I do sudo (i.e. timeout is zero) which may be more secure for when I leave my box, but can sometimes be a real pain!

But I've never needed to enable root.