Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: Peachpit Learning Series

Limitations of other users

So you are the Admin and other people are either standard users or managed users. All users are limited in certain ways:

• Applications can be made available to everyone, or limited to specific users. This means you could install a game in your child's Home folder and it won't clutter up your own Applications folder. If the game has to change the resolution of the monitor and the number of colors and your child cranks the volume way up, it won't affect what you see and hear when you log back in. You can install your financial program in your own Home/Applications folder so others cannot use it or access your files.

  You can create managed users for young kids and grandkids, where you can customize their Docks so they only ...