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Authored by: SOX on Mar 16, '04 02:23:06PM
This is a hint? Sigh, pardon my unix user arrogance.

anyhow, This sort of solution to your problem is sort of lame anyhow. Two more proper solutions are to greate a new group and add all the shared users to it. Then
chmod g+wrX -R ~user1 ~user2 ~user3 ....
now you will be able to have free terminal level acces to the other users. Interestingly, for reasons I have not figured out yet the finder may still block you from accessing these. Anyone know how to fix that???

The other solution is to create a folder in /scratch/shared for each of the users and use this as a common place to exchage files. Again the group permissions need to be set.

and as long as you want to do uncool tricks with sudo and su, then note an even more powerful trick is to type
sudo su other_user
this way you only need your own admin password to switch to anyone else, not their password. Again dont do this as a permenant solution.

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