Any way to have password access to another user account?

Liza

Liza

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I have two user accounts on my machine, my account is the admin account. I'd like to have access to the other user account or that account's files/folders from my account, but password protected. Is this possible? I considered FileVault but am not sure (nervous from what's been posted about it, and also, it's not clear that it can be accessed with the password from another user account).

Thanks in advance for your help, and long live Mac!
 
You can do it via the Terminal by using su - <accountname> and entering the password and accessing them from the command prompt. Probably the safest way. Or login as root and give read/write access to the files/folders to all users.

Best way is to not store specific files in the user's home directory, but in a separate folder structure.
 
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