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MacBook Create user that can "act as" another user

  • 17-07-2015 5:10pm
    #1
    krazymuthafuka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 98 ✭✭


    I'm looking to know if theres a way I can create a user on my Macbook so that the user can act as me.

    Basically I have a test/dev environment setup on my macbook and I want to create a user so that they can act as me with the same setup. So that they can work on my machine while I'm out on holidays. I can't allow them to use my account because my password is associated with other systems other than my macbook, so I need to give them there own account with full admin access on my machine and same dev environment.


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  • #2
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


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  • #3
    Zcott
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,206 ✭✭✭Zcott


    System Preferences > users and groups


  • #4
    krazymuthafuka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 98 ✭✭krazymuthafuka


    Zcott wrote: »
    System Preferences > users and groups

    Thanks. I have been looking around here and created new users giving them full admin access, etc. But this isn't the same, when they log on they have a new desktop etc. I'm looking for someone to be configured the same way as me and for all development tools and system variables to work for that use in the way they're set up for me.

    Thanks


  • #5
    Zcott
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,206 ✭✭✭Zcott


    The only way to do that is to manually recreate that environment and those settings within the new user account.


  • #6
    thecommander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭thecommander


    krazymuthafuka wrote: »
    I can't allow them to use my account because my password is associated with other systems other than my macbook, so I need to give them there own account with full admin access on my machine and same dev environment.

    Change your password.


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  • #7
    muggyog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 725 ✭✭✭muggyog


    OR


  • #8
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    The best way is change a password.

    Another is

    Create a new user.
    From the admin account become root and delete the new users home directory.
    Hard link the deleted path to your home directory.
    Set permissions so that the new user and you have read write permissions to your home directory.

    All of this involves some command line comfort.

    OS X used to have something called NetInfo which did allow you to change the home directory. There may be some residual hooks into the loginwindow process, or wherever the user database is stored, which still do this.

    If so you could bypass the delete the home directory steps and the linking.

    Edit.

    http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20071025175202466


  • #9
    colm_c
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭colm_c


    It must be a very specific config that you can't setup another dev environment?

    This is the main reason I use the likes of vagrant to ensure all developers use the same dev config.

    OP out of curiosity what is the environment/setup?


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