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Reboot a hung system with Spotlight and Terminal
Authored by: kiltbear on Dec 30, '08 09:07:18AM

Very cool, my suggestion was to "su admin" rather than "login admin"

Slightly different than "sudo". "sudo" is kind of like an enhanced "su".

"sudo newuser", if you are an admin account will allow you to use your own password to become that new user. "su newuser" will prompt you for the newuser's password.

Another subtle difference is that "su newuser" won't try to do any login stuff, like sourcing your .profile, etc, which login will. So, in some case "su admin" will get you to your privileged execute status with less fuss and muss if things are hanging.



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Reboot a hung system with Spotlight and Terminal
Authored by: mat79 on Dec 30, '08 10:45:56AM

IIRC only the Admin-Users are in the sudoers file, so a login would be safer



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