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macOS Tips and Tricks for Technicians
macOS Tips and Tricks for Technicians
Run terminal commands as another user
This is useful when you are in a user's non-admin account and need to run an admin-level command.
Open terminal and type
su username
Enter password for the account
Done, now you can run terminal commands as the account you specified
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Check out this article I found in the UIUC - College of Education knowledge base.<br /><br /><a href="https://help.uillinois.edu/TDClient/44/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=16">https://help.uillinois.edu/TDClient/44/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=16</a><br /><br />macOS Tips and Tricks for Technicians