On Jan 16, 2012, at 8:59 PM, Dan wrote: > Parental Controls can only be activated on a normal user account. > > If you don't provide the admin id and password, and the user is too stoopid > to boot into single-user mode, or from an external, or .... then they won't > be updating anything. > > OTOH,,, why the need for the restrictions? ...I've never been fond of > strapping any user down. Nothing good ever comes from it, IMO. Too often, > I've had to deal with the carnage of upset parents, when they discovered that > their children had the gall to first learn how to read english, then to use > *gasp* Google, and then hack their way around the parental controls, nanny > products, etc etc etc. There's just no substitutes for building trust and > sharing ice cream sandwiches. > > - Dan.
Put a firmware password in place and you don't have to worry about the user altering the boot disk. You may not choose to use them but there can be legitimate uses for parental controls. My daughter loves pbskids.org. I am not worried about this but would like her to avoid stumbling on other, less appropriate sites. Parental controls can help with this. It is not always a matter of trust and ice cream sandwiches. Jim -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
