December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
936 pages
23h 59m
English
book
OS X Support Essentials 10.11 - Apple Pro Training Series: Supporting and Troubleshooting OS X El Capitan
by Kevin M. White, Gordon Davisson
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Lesson 7Manage 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 7.1Change 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, ...