- From the "Apple" menu choose "System Preferences…".
- From the "View" menu choose "Users & Groups".
- Click the lock and authenticate as an administrator account.
- Click Login Options….
- Click the "Edit…" or "Join…" button at the bottom right.
- Click the "Open Directory Utility…" button.
- Click the lock in the Directory Utility window.
- Enter an administrator account name and password, then click OK.
- Choose "Enable Root User" from the "Edit" menu.
- Enter the password you wish to use for "root" in both the Password and Verify fields, then click OK.

- open a terminal
- run the following command:

$ sudo dsenableroot

- Open System Preferences (you’ll find on the right of the dock) and click on “Sharing”
- Select the checkbox next to “Remote Login” to enable it

- Open a terminal (go in the upper bar > Go > Utilities > Terminal )
- Type either one of these commands, depending of the version of Mac OS X that is being used, in the terminal to edit the ssh daemon’s properties

# vi /private/etc/sshd_config

or

# vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

- Uncomment the line « PermitRootLogin yes »
- Restart the ssh daemon:

A- the old way, that is deprecated in the latest versions of MAC OS X:

# SystemStarter restart sshd

B- the new way:

# launchctl unload com.openssh.sshd
# launchctl load com.openssh.sshd

C- the newest way:

sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ssh.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ssh.plist

 

4- Manage the service of BMC Client Management (and its older versions)

A- In the past the BCM agent service was located in /Library/StartupItems/BMCFootPrintsAssetCoreAgent/ .
If this case start it by running this command line as root:

# SystemStarter start BMCFootprintsAssetCoreAgent

Stop it:

# SystemStarter stop BMCFootprintsAssetCoreAgent

B- In more recent versions it is located here: /Library/LaunchDaemons/ .
If this case start it by running this command line as root:

# launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/BMCClientManagementAgentClient.plistBMCFootPrintsAssetCoreAgent.plist

or this one if running an older version ofthe BCM agent:

# launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/BMCFootPrintsAssetCoreAgent.plist

To stop it:

# launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/BMCClientManagementAgentClient.plist

or:

# launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/BMCFootPrintsAssetCoreAgent.plist