How do I keep my child from messing around in my computer?
My nearly four year-old keeps getting into my computer unattended, such as when I'm putting the baby down for nap or making dinner. I am dealing with the issue on its own, but I need to back up our handling of things with some better protection for the machine. All I really want to do it make it so that a password has to be entered to get the computer out of sleep. Is that possible? All I've been able to figure out how to do is assign a password to an account, but to make that come into effect I have to log out every time I step away from the machine, and it wants to shut down applications etc to do so. There has got to be a simpler way. Any help/advice would be great. I am already very frustrated with having to deal with the kid, I'm sick of wasting my time trying to figure out how to protect my machine.
system preferences -> security -> "require password immediatly after sleep or screen saver begins"
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At 07:47 AM 2/18/98 -0500, Martin G Nystrom wrote:
A user can launch an application, then launch it again. How do we make it so
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([email protected])
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[email protected] on 02/18/98 10:01:07 PM
Please respond to [email protected]
To: [email protected]
cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: How do I keep an application from being started more than
once?
Martin,
there are two ways to read your question
(a) no more than one instance of an application per machine
(b) no more than one instance of an application per "user"
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From: Curtis Bragdon <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 16:36:58 -0500
Subject: Re: How do I keep an application from being started more than
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