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10.5: Enable the root user
Authored by: Fairly on Mon, Oct 29 2007 at 4:24PM PDT

Boy am I glad Rob was here first to warn people before you posted. I gotta frame that one. "I could get away with sudo -s but I prefer root." That's absolute genius. Anytime you want to publish your IP or reveal further details I'm sure there are a few thousand MacBlackhats who'd love to contact you.