I am using MacOS Catelina and i often have to run my terminal stuff with sudo otherwise they fail. like when i use Visual Studio and IONIC to add stuff to global or when it tries to create dir etc. Is there a way to change the logged in user to run elevated commands in terminal without sudo ?
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You either continue using sudo or switch current user to root (it's not a recommended way)
The user account named ”root” is a superuser with read and write privileges to more areas of the system, including files in other macOS user accounts. The root user is disabled by default. If you can log in to your Mac with an administrator account, you can enable the root user, then log in as the root user to complete your task.
The root user account is not intended for routine use. Its privileges allow changes to files that are required by your Mac. To undo such changes, you might need to reinstall your system software. You should disable the root user after completing your task.
It's safer to use the sudo command in Terminal instead of enabling the root user. To learn about sudo, open the Terminal app and enter man sudo.
Taken from https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204012
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