set up a super user account in sequoia

Oldfart64 wrote:

Can I create an account that will allow me to execute sudo commands in terminal without entering my password after every command.

Your admin account gives you root privileges using the sudo

Not every command requires sudo, and once you use sudo you have a period of time that following commands altready acknowledge your sudo/psswd entered...(?)

you don't paint a very picture as to your issue or why you think you need to be logged into root— typically it is not advised due to the fact things can go sideways.

Your request is extremely uncommon here.

you already have access to root via the Terminal if necessary without an "create an account" ...maybe you can say more

Other replies have shown how to enable the root login.

macOS isn’t fond of having an accessible root user, and this for various reasons. UNIX and Linux, increasingly, too.

With macOS, root is also not the most privileged level. root (and sudo) will not grant access to alter the operating system files, or to alter all that much past user files and transient data. You can still blow away your own stuff and your own environment with a sudo rm -rfi / or other hazardous command (yeah, slightly detuned), but not macOS.

It is (or was) possible to alter the sudo password timeout, but most folks have had no need to do that. (Auditing can recommend disabling that timeout, too.) (I’ve not tried resetting this on macOS 15.)

If using sudo or su a whole lot, maybe user-level protection or group membership changes are viable alternatives?

Oldfart64 wrote:

Can I create an account that will allow me to execute sudo commands in terminal without entering my password after every command.

It is a safety & security feature to alert you that you are doing something that can be potentially dangerous.

If someone gets access to your unlocked macOS user account, it also prevents them from doing something hidden & destructive.

Besides, even if you use the command line a lot.....you probably should not need to be using that many commands with "sudo". The use of "sudo" and root access should be very minimal in most circumstances.

sudo -s

and then you can issue commands as much as you like.

sudo open -a /Applications/Utilities/Terminal

Enabling the root account is a bad idea, as it is a “known” account, and anytime your Mac is in direct connection to the Internet, there are constant hacking probes to login as root.

How to enable the root user or change the root password on Mac - Apple Support