Use the terminal to login as another user
May 05, '01 02:51:02PM • Contributed by: eagle_eyes
This may seem basic and stupid but it sure helped me out... I have too keep several of my X boxes logged in as a normal user because they are public machines. However I found that whenever I needed to do anything that calls for admin access (ie prebinding), I had to log out and log back in, which is not very convinient.
So I tried typing login in a terminal window and it let me login to terminal as an admin so that I could run the prebinding comand. Handy or not it is cool to know!
[Editor's note: Definitely handy if you login as a non-admin user at times, and want quick access to the admin account!]
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