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Pro tip: You can log into macOS High Sierra as root with no password

katrinab Silver badge

Re: This is a deliberate feature and it's because Apple cares.

sudo su

[my user password]

is how I get a root terminal in OSX.

The root user is still disabled by default in the terminal, so I set my root password by doing "sudo passwd root".

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