
There's a cool tip
over at MacFixIt Mac OS X Hints (oops!) today, pointing out one of the cool new features of Tiger. With the new Parental Controls—which you can find by launching System Preferences, choosing the Accounts control panel, and then clicking on the Parental Controls tab—you can set up an account with no password, so that your kid(s) can simply click on a picture to log in, and then enable Simple Finder and set specifically the different programs your child can access.
A side effect of all this is that SSH is automatically turned off for the account, so there is no worry about anyone hacking in to the password-less account. Pretty cool.
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derek said 4:45PM on 6-23-2005
got your sites mixed up C.K. it's macosxhints
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Michael said 6:20PM on 6-23-2005
Hmm, I had this running on Panther - I don't think it's much different on Tiger that I've noticed.
-M
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k said 11:21AM on 6-24-2005
actually there are a couple newer features in tiger for the parental controls but interestingly the private browsing is still available when you launch safari, so they can browse without leaving a trail which is a little disappointing.
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