SL:How do I give the Admin account premissions to access other accounts?

How do I give the Admin account the permissions needed to read and write the folders desired in the other account(s)?

hassiman wrote:
I have a MacPro running Tiger and for whatever reason when I am logged into the machine with my user account which has Admin privilages I can open/drag and drop etc. from my desktop to my wife's account ( which I set up as limited with parental restriction to only what she needs to access and use.)
a parental controlled account for your wife. you must have an interesting relationship...
I am setting up a Mac Mini running SL for my 90 year old in-laws and it was my intention to give them a STANDARD user account so that they can not download and install anything nasty which they did all the time on the Windoze machine the Mini is replacing. I have set up an Admin account on the machine so I can install stuff and perform maintenance functions VIA VNC connection from San Dieg to them in NYC... But I was surprised when I could not access any folders on their account... specifically their desktop where I tried to drop a file.
Not sure why it's no biggie on Tiger but Leopard's throwing a fit. Any ideas?
this is quite normal and is the default in all versions of OS X. a user has write access too their own home directory but not to any other users home directories. being an admin user does not change that. as an admin user you can give yourself write writes to it as discussed earlier but that won't happen by default. the best thing to do in the situation you describe is to log in as your in-laws once you vnc into their computer. then you can copy what you need to the desktop. it's of course possible to do it from the admin account by giving it write access to their desktop as you were intending but that will give you extra problems later because their users won't have write privileges to anything you copy that way.

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