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From: nospam on 31 Jan 2010 13:17 In article <1jd6bxa.jf8afq16kqr3N%kmorgan(a)spamcop.net>, Kathy Morgan <kmorgan(a)spamcop.net> wrote: > Even in this tiny community, damaging the account would affect the dozen > or so other people sharing that account. why do they all share the same account?? > And if an adult using the less > restrictive account saved inappropriate images or files to a shared > folder, it would then be available for viewing by the children using the > more restricted account. That is totally unacceptable, if only from a > legal liability standpoint. give each person an account or use the built in guest account which resets on logout.
From: JF Mezei on 31 Jan 2010 18:31 Kathy Morgan wrote: > Hmmm...I see Apple makes available a free fully functional evaluation > copy, so I could actually try it to see for myself how difficult or easy > it is to administer and what kind of experience a guest user would have. > Thanks for the suggestion; I will check it out. Goto Itunes Store, search for Podcasts from Apple. There is a series of podcasts about managing Xserve, and some of them are about creating/securing users with the workgroup manager.
From: Kathy Morgan on 31 Jan 2010 19:29 nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > doesn't matter. the worst that can happen is it will trash the guest > account, which is cleaned up anyway when the guest logs out. That's what's really beautiful abut the guest account and the reason I want a second guest account, but I don't see a way to create it. -- Kathy
From: Kathy Morgan on 31 Jan 2010 19:29 JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > Goto Itunes Store, search for Podcasts from Apple. There is a series of > podcasts about managing Xserve, and some of them are about > creating/securing users with the workgroup manager. I'll check them out today. Thanks! -- Kathy
From: Kathy Morgan on 31 Jan 2010 19:29
nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > In article <1jd6bxa.jf8afq16kqr3N%kmorgan(a)spamcop.net>, Kathy Morgan > <kmorgan(a)spamcop.net> wrote: > > > And if an adult using the less > > restrictive account saved inappropriate images or files to a shared > > folder, it would then be available for viewing by the children using the > > more restricted account. That is totally unacceptable, if only from a > > legal liability standpoint. > > give each person an account That's not practical for us. Many times the person will be a tourist traveling through who wants to use the computer one time only. Our library is entirely volunteer staffed by a number of volunteers who each come in for 2 or 3 hours per week--I'm an exception in that I volunteer 6 hours a week, far more than anyone else but still I'm not there most of the time. I absolutely am not handing out administrator accounts like candy to every volunteer in case they need to create a new account for someone to use for half an hour and never return again. > or use the built in guest account which > resets on logout. Now we're right back where I started with this. The built-in guest account is perfect for the adult users. What I really want is to be able to duplicate it and restrict Internet access for a child guest account. No one seems to have any ideas on creating a duplicate of the guest account within SL, so the next best seems to be the guest account for adults and create a managed account for children, either in SL or SL Server--although possibly with SL Server I'd be able to create a second guest account to manage, which is what I really want. (Ewww! I just checked the price, and SL Server costs more than I want to pay. I would definitely want to try it out with the free demo before shelling out the money. I think I'll go check out the podcasts that JF Mezei suggested.) In the absence of a second guest account, I can try to create a script to clean out the user files or maybe just go in once a week and clean it out manually. -- Kathy |