How to give write permissions to any file in mac os x 10.8.3

How can we give write access to the file in mac os x 10.8.3.It is not allowing to login as root user also.Can any one please help me in this.I think in mac os x 10.8.3 security update only bloocked this root access.We can give permissions to anyfile upto mac os x 10.8.2.How can we edit any system files?

Download TextWrangler from BareBones' website, not the Mac App Store. It will allow you to edit system files by authenticating. The Mac App store version doesn't have that capability.
You could also edit them in the Terminal with pico, nano, emacs (perhaps more). TextWrangler is much easier to use, though.

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