Mac: How to log in as different user when Mac requires password to wake from sleep?

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If you enable "Show fast user switching menu" in System Preferences → Accounts, then the lock screen gains a new button "Switch User..." which will take you to the login screen.

On Mac OS X Snow Leopard and previous, the Switch User button appears on the password dialog:

Mac OS X Snow Leopard Switch User button

On Mac OS X Lion, the button appears at the bottom of the screen:

Mac OS X Lion Switch User button

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Updated on September 18, 2022

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  • Meltemi
    Meltemi almost 2 years

    If your Mac is set up to require a password when being awoke from sleep or the screen saver is it possible to log in as a different user? If so how?

  • Meltemi
    Meltemi almost 13 years
    Thanks! That's what I thought but had to look a bit harder for it in Lion. It's no longer in the dialog as you've shown. It's now at the bottom of the lock screen.
  • Stephen Jennings
    Stephen Jennings almost 13 years
    Ah, so you're right. I don't have Lion so I didn't know they moved it. I added that detail to my answer, thanks!
  • Meltemi
    Meltemi over 11 years
    FYI- there is a related bug in Mountain Lion if there is only one Local user account and a Network user wants to log in from the lock screen.