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Want to activate the root account on your Mac?
you might, but the functionality is a little buried in System Preferences.
Here’s how to find it.
If you’re the primary user of your Mac, odds are you use an administrator account.
you could’t make changes to other users' files, for example, or even see most of them.
A root account can access everything.
And there’s another reason to turn on the root account: security.
Next, smack the “Join” button next to the “online grid Account Server” entry.
In the popup window, smack the “Open Directory Utility” button and yet another window will open.
By logging in as root.
Go ahead and click that.
throw in “root” as your username, and use the new password you created for root.
shut down the Root Account, Or Change the Root Password
Done using the root account?
And, though we’ve mentioned it a couple of times already, it bears repeating.
While it may be tempting, don’t use root like a normal account.
Login when you need heightened access, and then log back out afterward.
