Forced Preferences

Cabinnyc

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I know there's a way to do this...At my school we're having problems with students accessing sites we would rather they didn't.....you know.
So we'd like to put "strict" parental controls on websites through forced preferences.
Suggestions on how this is accomplished? Thanks!
 
Can you, in the administrator account, go to system preferences -> accounts -> click on student account -> parental controls?
 
Eric- We have "mid-winter recess" now til a week from this Monday-I can check then. Will this "push" the preference out to client workstations though?
 
Whoops. This is how to set parental controls from client computers..

Yes and no. I tried this to test it out on my computer, and you do have to set the parental controls from the "denied user account". The catch is, to change the setting, they have to enter an administrator's password. This is what the safari help file says about parental controls:
Choosing which websites users can view
If you have an administrative account on a computer, you can control which websites users can view in Safari. Users will be able to view only those websites that are in the bookmarks bar. In addition, they will not be able to enter web addresses in the address field, use the Google search field, or modify any of the bookmarks.


Log in as the user, and open Safari.
Choose Safari > Preferences, click Security, and deselect "Enable parental controls."
Enter an administrator's name and password when asked.

Add bookmarks for the websites you want the user to visit in the Bookmarks Bar. Remove all other bookmarks from the Bookmarks Bar.
When you're done, choose Safari > Preferences, click Security, and select "Enable parental controls."

When you add a page to the Bookmarks Bar, the user will be able to visit any page on that site. For example, if you add a bookmark for http://www.apple.com/index.html, the user will be able to visit any page at apple.com, and not just index.html.

While you're still logged in as the user, try to access the sites you want that user to view, so you can make sure the user can still view them. For example, some web pages don't display content but transfer you automatically to a page on a different site. If you want a user to view that content, both sites (the original site and the site you're transferred to) must be in the bookmarks bar.

Parental controls does not prevent a user from viewing websites in other browsers. To prevent a user from using other web browsers, use the Accounts pane in System Preferences to set up the parental controls for Finder & System, and choose the applications the user can open.
(There is a lot of other help files for this, just go to safari help and search "Parental Controls")
 
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