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Create a guest account in OS X Lion

by Steven Sande Aug 18th 2011 at 12:15PM

Want to let someone else use your Mac temporarily and have OS X Lion clean up their info and files afterwards? Open the Users & Groups pane in System Preferences, click on the Guest User, and check "Allow guests to log in to this computer." Guests can then log in without a password and their data is deleted when they log out.



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Stu

Guest user access cannot be enabled in File Vault is turned on though.

August 11 2011 at 8:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Yuusharo

Yeah, that's lame =(. You would think Apple would allow Guest accounts to still function, but require the owner to still unlock the drive. Oh well.

August 12 2011 at 1:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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