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Standard User Accounts: Can they see the administrators files?
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<blockquote data-quote="macboy2008" data-source="post: 963343" data-attributes="member: 136004"><p>I as the administrator on my macbook am about to set up a standard account for my brother. I wanted to keep all my files private, previously I had pacific private folders in the MACINTOSH HD folder these folders you could see in the standard account. I read online and moved the folders into my pacific HOME folder, so basically from what I understand he wont be able to see my files in this folder from his account?</p><p></p><p>When logging onto his account from FINDER I can see my user account, now in here there are 11 icons to choose from, four of them carry a little red circled minus. </p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Desktop</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Downloads</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Library</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Movies</li> </ul><p></p><p>Whilst the other seven don't have these little minus signs, however the first three (below) give the same prompt as the four (above), "The folder <folder name> could not be opened because you do not have sufficient access privileges". The four (marked with *) from below with these I am able to browse the folders.</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Documents</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Music</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Pictures</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Apps*</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Public*</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Restore*</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sites*</li> </ul><p></p><p>Is this how it should be? Should I be worried about the folders without the minus signs, and then the few that are accessible from the standard account, why are they accessible? such as the sites folder does it contain cookies etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="macboy2008, post: 963343, member: 136004"] I as the administrator on my macbook am about to set up a standard account for my brother. I wanted to keep all my files private, previously I had pacific private folders in the MACINTOSH HD folder these folders you could see in the standard account. I read online and moved the folders into my pacific HOME folder, so basically from what I understand he wont be able to see my files in this folder from his account? When logging onto his account from FINDER I can see my user account, now in here there are 11 icons to choose from, four of them carry a little red circled minus. [LIST] [*]Desktop [*]Downloads [*]Library [*]Movies [/LIST] Whilst the other seven don't have these little minus signs, however the first three (below) give the same prompt as the four (above), "The folder <folder name> could not be opened because you do not have sufficient access privileges". The four (marked with *) from below with these I am able to browse the folders. [LIST] [*]Documents [*]Music [*]Pictures [*]Apps* [*]Public* [*]Restore* [*]Sites* [/LIST] Is this how it should be? Should I be worried about the folders without the minus signs, and then the few that are accessible from the standard account, why are they accessible? such as the sites folder does it contain cookies etc. [/QUOTE]
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