Hi, You need to first enable the root user which is done through the Directory Utility found through Users & Groups in System Prefs in the Login Options, then the Join button. Once in Directory Utility, it's under the Edit menu. I reiterate the extreme caution that one must have when both enabling and using the root user as it can open up some vulnerabilities if your computer is compromised.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 8, 2015, at 17:38, Agent086b <agent0...@internode.on.net> wrote: 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. -- 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.
