Running Terminal as a Different User
15/11/13 20:56 Filed in: Apple
How do you use Terminal as another user?
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It’s generally considered best-practice on any operating system to ensure your normal day to day account does not have Administrative rights. On my machine for example, I have my normal user account, and I have an Admin account. Whenever I need administrative rights, I use my elevated account.
In OSX this can lead to issues in Terminal. By way of example, if I want to change my safe sleep mode, I have to use a SUDO command - but it doesn’t work as my account isn’t in the SUDO list:
Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to sort in Terminal - you can use the ‘su’ command to switch users. So for example if I want to switch to my administrator account I could use the command:
su - adminaccountname
...and then I can use sudo as normal. For example:
Anyway, quick an easy.
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