It seems that some IT departments like to lock out the fast user switching option on company laptops in a lot of companies at the moment. This became a problem for me as I have a local admin account on my work machine, and I have to switch to it whenever I want to install from a dmg file. This got me thinking, is there a command line argument or tool that I could run to do this? Sure enough there is. The only thing you need to look up is the UserId for the user that you want to switch to.
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