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Tiger Tips: Kid Safe Account

parental control tigerThere'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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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...
 

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k

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.

June 24 2005 at 11:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael

Hmm, I had this running on Panther - I don't think it's much different on Tiger that I've noticed. -M

June 23 2005 at 6:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
derek

got your sites mixed up C.K. it's macosxhints

June 23 2005 at 4:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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