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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Operating System
adding a "family" account
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<blockquote data-quote="louishen" data-source="post: 804571" data-attributes="member: 40142"><p>First of all set up the new account in the accounts pref pane as set is as a standard user (not admin)</p><p></p><p>Under login options set that account to Automatically login as that account and enable fast user switching while you are there</p><p></p><p>Switch to your admin account and you can set parental controls from your account (from the current user name in the menu bar)</p><p></p><p>You can add any games and software to their doc if you switch back to the family account (any changes you make may require your admin username and password.</p><p></p><p>As for iTunes, do you want the family account to share with your itunes library, or acces a separate library of music?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="louishen, post: 804571, member: 40142"] First of all set up the new account in the accounts pref pane as set is as a standard user (not admin) Under login options set that account to Automatically login as that account and enable fast user switching while you are there Switch to your admin account and you can set parental controls from your account (from the current user name in the menu bar) You can add any games and software to their doc if you switch back to the family account (any changes you make may require your admin username and password. As for iTunes, do you want the family account to share with your itunes library, or acces a separate library of music? [/QUOTE]
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