Find root password

Upgrade to Mac OS Sierra and all my accounts now have Standard permissions, i.e. without administrator permissions.

How I either upgrade my administrator account or find the password for Root?

There is no root password. This is a disabled account. For good reasons.

You can enable the root account, but that increases your risk of being hacked much, because the root is a known account that has unlimited privileges. Enabling root makes your Mac a rich target environment.

But if that's how you want to live your life, Google "enable OS X root" and you will find several approaches.

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