Fix locate command on Mountain Lion

So apparently upgrading to the Macintosh system Mountain Lion (10.8) breaks the unix "locate" command because it deletes the "nobody" user that was used to own the database. I found this gist that gives instructions how to get it working again. However, in my case I also had to enable the root user and then log in as root in Terminal and run the command /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb as root. Then it finally worked. Sheesh.