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internet security settings for MAC| geek_vanessa_c | March 14, 2008, 8:51 pm | #1 | | Internet security settings for MAC HI there,
we are wanting to know how you can restrict users from accessing certain sites on the internet when using a mac. We have a young boy and we want to put something in place so that sites with sexual content or violent content cannot be viewed or visited. how would we do this? we have a Mac and use 'safari'.
am wanting to prohibit this computer from being able to visit any site with explicit content on it and block specific sites too |
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| | geek_dunedin_ree | March 14, 2008, 8:54 pm | #2 | | Do you have Leopard/10.5? Open System Preferences - Accounts and create a new non-admin account for your son. Tick "enable parental controls" and then click "open parental controls". Click on his username, click on Content. Have a look at the various options (only allow certain websites, or block certain websites) to see what suits. Remember to put a password on your account so he can't log in to the wrong one. | | geek_vanessa_c | March 14, 2008, 8:55 pm | #3 | | Any way of putting those same parental cotrols on the administrator account? | | geek_dunedin_ree | March 14, 2008, 8:57 pm | #4 | | No. You must use the Admin account to administer all other normal accounts. Even if you could, restricting the admin account would be pointless because they could just turn the controls off again. | | geek_thegilly | March 14, 2008, 8:59 pm | #5 | | Kinda defeats the point of an administrator account, since anyone with administrator access would be able to disable those parental controls. But by all means, set up a new non-administrator account, move all your stuff over to it, and use it as your main family account--you'll just have to keep the old admin account in place and remember the password for when you need to install software, change settings and such. | | geek_vanessa_c | March 14, 2008, 9:00 pm | #6 | | Ok, so no way at allto restrict or control internet surfing from admin account at all? i know admin could just turn it off but its more to prevent accidentally entering into the wrong site etc. anyway, no one else in the house is computer savvy enough to change any settings | | geek_vanessa_c | March 14, 2008, 9:02 pm | #7 | | Ok, sounds like a plan. how do i set up another account? and how do i move everything to it? | | geek_thegilly | March 14, 2008, 9:02 pm | #8 | | Snap #4 :-) The security-conscious will tell us that none of us should be running administrator accounts as our day-to-day accounts anyway. I suspect few Mac users bother, however. (Personally, my Macs are set up with an ordinary account and a spare admin account--but I use the admin account I created on first login.) | | geek_dunedin_ree | March 14, 2008, 9:06 pm | #9 | | Easy way to move stuff is to drag it all into Macintosh HD (or whatever yours is called) - Users - Shared (then pick it up from there when you log in with the new account. Unless you are running out of space, hold down Option while you drag stuff (folders etc) to make a copy of it and leave the originals intact. To make a new account - System Preferences - Accounts - click the + button. | | geek_dunedin_ree | March 14, 2008, 9:09 pm | #10 | | Oh ... I think we lost the race to give advice on this one to the people in General. | | geek_thegilly | March 14, 2008, 9:23 pm | #11 | | Yeah, and it's in General that she mentions she's using Tiger, which limits the options somewhat. :-) | | geek_vanessa_c | March 14, 2008, 9:24 pm | #12 | | I am now trying to chnage parental controls in the new family account but it asks to give an admin name and password, and it wont accept our admin name and password!!!!!!
help? | | geek_dunedin_ree | March 14, 2008, 9:29 pm | #13 | | You've typed them in wrong. Can you log out of that account into your admin account? | | geek_vanessa_c | March 14, 2008, 9:29 pm | #14 | | Ok, got that sorted but now when i say i want to configure safari browsing options through parental controls, it tells me to give a list of all the sites we CAN visit. and tells me to add any sites we CAN visit to bookmarks bar. but heck, we may want to visit sites that we didnt think of so can i just restrict sites with certain content in them? | | geek_dunedin_ree | March 14, 2008, 9:31 pm | #15 | | Nope. To do that you'd have to install a third-party application, like Net Nanny (which is probably windows only). | | geek_thegilly | March 14, 2008, 9:39 pm | #16 | | I believe Leopard (10.5) has more options for Parental Control, which is why the poster above asked which OS version you were using before giving instructions. | | geek_thegilly | March 14, 2008, 9:44 pm | #17 | | Maybe look at something like http://www.intego.com/contentbarrier/ | | geek_dunedin_ree | March 14, 2008, 9:45 pm | #18 | | Yep :) You can choose to "limit access to adult websites automatically" which uses a built-in set of filters to attempt to block access to sites with adult content. When a site is blocked, the Web browser displays a page explaining why it was blocked, and offering to add the site to the list of allowed sites (you would need an admin password to do this though). | | geek_thegilly | March 14, 2008, 9:45 pm | #19 | | Or something here http://www.pure-mac.com/censor.html | | geek_thegilly | March 14, 2008, 9:47 pm | #20 | | So, as I see it, your choices are: 1) get a third-party software solution, perhaps one of the shareware ones I've referred to above 2) supervision or 3) upgrade to Leopard and use its built-in Parental Controls. | | geek_gibler | March 14, 2008, 9:59 pm | #21 | | Opendns is a possible option http://www.opendns.com/features/adult/ | | Leave your comment: | |
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