Not quite sure why Apple added this utility, but dsenableroot appears to do just that, and only that. Simply do
[robg adds: I also don't understand why there's now yet another way to enable the root account ... personally, I haven't enabled the root account since the earliest days of the 10.0 Public Beta -- it's just not necessary for anything that I've ever tried to do...]
% dsenableroot -u username [-p ] [-r ]Use a username that has administrative access to the computer. If you leave off the -p or -r switches, it will prompt you for these. Note that since any user with administrative priveledges can do this, you may wish to set your root password before someone else does!
[robg adds: I also don't understand why there's now yet another way to enable the root account ... personally, I haven't enabled the root account since the earliest days of the 10.0 Public Beta -- it's just not necessary for anything that I've ever tried to do...]
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