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laz232

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Since OS X 10.11 or so the Console logs are not readable for non-admin users.
I am having problems with my 2018 MBP (USB-C HDMI dropping, files not getting deleted properly etc)

My default work account in macOS is a nonadmin account

I have an admin account and know the PW (obviously)

Whilst running as my nonadmin user - is there any way to run the Console app as admin and view the logs?

1. I don't want to give my normal user account admin status.
2. I don't want to log out or log in as admin in a parallel session from the menu bar, because that ****s up my workflow too much in what is already an annoying bug hunt.

Have googled.
 
It might work to have your normal user account use 'sudo' from the command line. For example:

sudo vi /var/log/system.log

I'm pretty sure non-admin accounts can be authorized to use 'sudo' -- something about adding them to the sudoers file. See 'man sudo' and 'man sudoers'.

This would not work to allow access from the Console.app, though -- it would be strictly Terminal/text mode access...
 
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