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Faster User Switching of a different kind
If anbody knows how to use su and then run a .app, say TextEdit, as another user, please let me know. Before Panther I would get errors for everybody except root, now it launches it under my original UID.
Faster User Switching of a different kind
For some applications the follwoing will work:
Faster User Switching of a different kind
it would look somthing like this:
you will be prompted for the other user's password, and then the program will start running as the other user.also, something i noticed while trying this... i come from a unix background and am used to typing "su -c 'command' userid"... for some reason, the "su" command in OSX requires the "-c" option to come AFTER the userid. unix hackers beware...
Faster User Switching of a different kind
Look it up in this hinton why it does not work in all apps and how to do it with the ones that does not work. I wrote this hint before 10.3, and at the time you could only launch applications as a different user if that user was root, because the new user would not have permissions to use the original user's window manager (so no gui allowed, only cli). So, in other words, you could only do |
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