Apple Pro Training Series: OS X Support Essentials 10.10: Supporting and Troubleshooting OS X Yosemite

Lesson 7. System Security

Goals

• Understand password types and their usage

• Use a variety of methods to reset lost user passwords

• Manage user and system security settings

The primary purpose of a multiple-user operating system is to provide all users with a secure work environment. OS X provides a relatively secure out-of-the-box experience for most situations. Yet some situations call for greater security than the defaults afford. This lesson focuses on the built-in advanced security features of OS X and how best to manage and troubleshoot these features.

Reference 7.1 Account Passwords

OS X relies on passwords as its primary method for verifying a user’s authenticity. There are other, more elaborate systems for proving a user’s identity, ...