September 2005
Beginner to intermediate
528 pages
23h 55m
English
Content preview from Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition
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n an era where security is a high-tech buzzword, Apple was smart to make secu-
rity a focal point for Mac OS X. The built-in security features in Mac OS X can
protect you from hacker attacks; erase your hard drive so no one can ever recover
your private information; and clean up the digital tracks you leave as you browse the
Web. You’ll be grateful for Mac OS X’s protection when you hear horror stories about
security breaches from your Windows-using friends—or on the evening news.
Another important component of Mac OS X’s security scheme involves accounts,
which let each person who uses your Mac keep his information private. In combina-
tion, therefore, Mac OS X’s protections keep your data safe from nosy co-workers
and from malevolent hackers.
This chapter covers Mac OS X’s security features in all their various incarnations.
Introducing Accounts
Like the Unix under its skin (and also like Windows XP and Windows 2000), Mac OS
X is designed from the ground up to be a multiple-user operating system. A Mac OS X
machine can be configured so that everyone must log in—click or type her name and
type in a password—when the computer turns on. And you’re doing so, you discover
the Macintosh universe just as you left it, which includes these elements:
• Your documents, files, and folders
• Your preference settings in every program you
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