How can I enforce a time limit across 2 iMacs?

I have 2 iMacs in my house, 1 is my lil sister's iMac and one is mine, hers has gotten old and slow. On it she has parental controls allowing her to be on for certain times of the day for a certain amount of time. I'd like to make her account on my computer that she can use also, but I want to enforce the same parental controls as on the other iMac. My problem comes in with, how do I get the time limit to sync between the iMacs? So that she can't in theory use one imac till her 2 hours is up then come use mine for a bonus 2 hours; instead she should be restricted to 2 hours no matter wich iMac she divides up the time on.

I havent tried this but you might be able to sync the preference for parental controls between the two computers via sync software such as Chronosync, dropbox or maybe even iCloud. I dont know of any quick way to do that and this method is getting into a more advanced configuration. Its interesting to see in mountain lion that you can copy and paste the settings by clicking on the gear icon in System Preferences:Parental Controls. What system are you using on each machine?

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