second admin previliges

fullpose wrote:

I have an Intel Macbook Pro 2020 Ventura 13.4. I had one user who was also an admin. With this user, I have full access to everything on HD. I created a second user as admin - not a normal user, but with this account I cannot see anything like admin_1.

Yes, that is working as intended. It is a bit of a security feature and macOS has worked this way for years.

You can either copy the entire folder into your own user account which will automatically change permissions on all items moved....it is all or nothing with this approach since you cannot access anything in the other user account beyond the root of that account to see Desktop, Documents, etc., but this is cumbersome.

Option two would be to use a third party app such as Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) to copy items from the other user account. CCC will ask for an admin password so that you can view items in the other user folder. You can select or deselect any items and CCC will copy them to another location.

Edit: If this is an Apple Silicon Mac, then moving to another admin account & deleting the first one may end up with some odd issues later on since the first macOS admin account is also considered the "Owner".....a new "feature" or concept (not sure what to call it) for Apple Silicon Macs. It is not well known, but we have seen some people post "ownership" issues at times (usually involved external boot drives, some may involve cloning the boot drive, but some do not). Just something to consider...I have not seriously read through these articles to fully understand the concept or its repercussions.

Here are a few articles about "ownership":

https://eclecticlight.co/2021/07/18/last-week-on-my-mac-the-perils-of-m1-ownership/

https://eclecticlight.co/2023/03/15/ownership-of-apple-silicon-macs-matters-how-it-can-stop-external-bootable-disks/

https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2023/03/10/granting-volume-owner-status-on-apple-silicon-macs/

Use secure token, bootstrap token, and volume ownership in deployments - Apple Support

If you want to have files that both user accounts can freely access you need to place them on an external drive formatted as follows:

with Ownership set to be ignored!

For a portable Mac you could use something like one of these setups which are both easy to carry along with the labptop:

1TB is $119

1TB is $87.

I put files, Photos libraries etc to /Users/Shared so all users on can access them.

Log Out of the Second Admin Account and Log back into the First Admin Account

Change Users & Groups settings on Mac

The Current version of Ventura is presently 13.6 and there is as Standalone update for Safari 17

About the security content of macOS Ventura 13.6

About the security content of Safari 17

Interesting as I have the First Admin account I used to setup 3 different Apple M1 / M2 computer

Have added a Second Admin account on each machine

What I can access from Admin Account 1 , I can access from Admin Account 2

Get Support Choose a product and we’ll find you the best solution.Start now and open an Apple Support Ticket as they are Apple Employees to deal will these types of issues

There isn’t any difference between accounts. Can you explain in detail what content you are trying to see that you can’t.

No user can see another user’s files in subfolders of the home directory in Finder.

You should not have access to everything on the hard drive with any user. However, you should be able to read pretty much everything on the drive except another users home folder.

Again, details are important. “Everything” is not detailed. List some specific areas to which the new user cannot access that the old user can.

Unless a profile is corrupt, all admin users initially have exactly the same rights and privileges.