Hi, how would I log in as root? Thanks again. Max. > On 6 Jun 2015, at 11:58 pm, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > User accounts are independent of each other. Even as an Admin, you do not > have permission to go inside the user account of another user on your > computer, unless you mess with file permissions, which is not recommended. > You can have User A put files into the Shared folder and then you'd have > access to them from both accounts, or log in as root which will give you > access to anything and everything, which has its own set of cautions. > > HTH. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Jun 5, 2015, at 21:35, Agent086b <agent0...@internode.on.net> wrote: > > Hello all, > thanks to the help the other day I have created another admin account on the > Mac. > What I now wish to change user A from an admin to a non admin account. I know > how to do this. My question is . > After changing to the non admin account will I be able to see all the files > belonging to account A from the new admin account? > My reason for wanting to do this is because I wish to run the Mac from a non > admin account. Security wise this is much safer. You may have read about a > venerability > that has been discovered on the Mac when the Mac awakes from sleep mode if > you have visited a site that gave you some Trojan either via flash or some > downloaded file access to the Mac is possible. If you don’t run with admin > credentials apparently you are safe. > Running as a non admin in Windows has been good practice for years. > As always thanks for any advice. > Max. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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