HT1904 parental controls and shared libraries

We're slowly migrating towards having all our music and movies in iTunes.
One item that's crutial to this migration is proper parental controls, especially with shared libraries. They seem to work well on the kids iTouch devices and hide the content that's higher than their allowed rating level.
However, on my daughter's computer (Vista SP2 with iTunes 11.0.2), the shared libraries with content higher than her allowed rating are visible and can be started, even when the parental controls are enabled.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Eric

It seems that the parental controls only apply to iTunes store, not the iTunes library?
Correct; parental controls do indeed only apply to iTunes Store purchases.
The only reasonable workaround I can think of that the kids can't easily get around to have separate iTunes libraries, one for the adults in the house and one from the kids.

Similar Messages

How do i reset my mac completely? I have parental controls and cant seem to get to time machine cause i bought the computer with parental controls on it and they did not have the password. How do i completely reset my macbook pro?

how do i reset my mac completely? I have parental controls and cant seem to get to time machine cause i bought the computer with parental controls on it and they did not have the password. How do i completely reset my macbook pro?

If you have a rescue email address (which is not the same thing as an alternate email address) on your account then the steps on this page will give you a reset link on your account : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6170
If you don't have a rescue email address (you won't be able to add one until you can answer your questions) then you will need to contact Support in your country to get the questions reset.
Contacting Apple about account security : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699
When they've been reset (and if you don't already have a rescue email address) you can then use the steps on this page to add a rescue email address for potential future use : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5620
Or, if it's available in your country, you could change to 2-step verification : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5570

IChat, Parental Control and Bonjour

Rather than using AIM (and it's slowness), I was hoping to be able to use Bonjour on our internal network (which is firewalled and, obviously, not a threat) to chat/audio conference with our youngest.
I used the parental control to limit his AIM partners to the family but still wanted to allow him to talk on our network in the house. Unfortunately, when I go into iChat via his account the "using Bonjour instant messaging" is grayed out.
I tried turning it on in iChat on his account, going to my admin account and THEN enabling parental control, and trying again but no dice.
Any ideas?
Sure would be nice for home networks to have the option to iChat with everyone at Bonjour vs. AIM speeds (doubly so if you are on dialup!).

hi James,
Well I read this and thought "he can't be right" ?
So I went to test
Enabled Parental Controls and for iChat and Added one AIM/@mac buddy.
Looked for ability to add Bonjur or Jabber accounts but found nothing
Went to log in to that account.
Check to see if Bonjour window was available. Nope.
Checked iChat Preferences >Accounts and could not select Bonjour.
Took off Parental Controls - Appears in iChat, Bonjour and Jabber windows.
Selecting and deselecting Parental Control Logs iChat in and out of AIM.
I must admit to thinking this is a big Opps by Apple
Ralph

Snow Leopard Parental Controls and iChat (Can't see iChat anymore)

I enabled Parental Controls on my daughters profile. I left applications to unrestricted access, and unrestricted access to web sites (but I still review the log)... I selected to LIMIT iChat and then added the people she can chat with (she's 8).
The problem is, it looks like iChat is online. It's in her dock. Has the little white light dot on underneath the app but I can't see the chat window. You know, where you actually double click on someone to chat with? What gives???
When I go to iChat preferences and on the Accounts tab, "enable this account" is not checked, but it's grayed out so I can't check it!!

It seemed to crop up in Leopard with the first Parental Controls and has yet to be "sorted" in Snow Leopard.
I tend to think it is because Parental Control Updates are out of Step with iChat ones but I have no real insight as to the cause.
11:13 PM Saturday; March 20, 2010
Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

Enabling parental controls and keeping icons on desktop

I turn on parental controls and after logging out and back in the app icons on the desktop all disappear and I can't find them anywhere. Any thoughts?

Hi, every user's Desktop is different & Unique.
Check the preferences & see if you chose Simple Finder for instance, & which apps the Managed account is allowed to use.

Parental Controls & Printer Sharing

I have had success with both of these before but suddenly I'm having issues which leads me to believe I'm missing something.
My parental controls will no longer show me the Websites Allowed or Websites Blocked on my two kids computers - it just spins for a couple of seconds and then shows nothing.
My printer sharing from both of my kids computers shows the shared printer, even lets you select it to print, but then sits there and says it can't find it and will never print when you try.
Any suggestions are appreciated - thank you!

Just tried to set up "managed" accounts for the kids. Still not sure how to set up printer sharing correctly - the computer that has the printer connected to can print (from a managed account) but the remote computers can not use the shared printers. Again this applies to managed accounts only. If I try to print from regular accounts, it works fine.

Iphone/Touch App that allows remote control of shared libraries

Hey all,
Curious if anyone has found this. I want to plug my macbook into my TV and play movies, music and tv shows on. All my content is stored on my imac in my other room. I can use front row to view the content on my macbook with the provided remote but I cannot use the Remote app for the touch to control my macbooks itunes shared libraries, only the itunes within the macbook.
Simply put, you know when you open up front row, you can access shared libraries on other mac itunes accounts? You cannot access the same libraries through the Remote app when controlling the itunes on the same computer.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Tim

There are only other users here. You aren't talking to Apple.
Give a Apple your feedback at http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

I was trying to set parental controls and somehow lost the abitlity to sign in as adminstrator. When I try to reset using my OSX CD, it says I need to install Rosetta before I can reinstall MacOSX. I say yes, but it asks for my administrator ID/password

Somehow lost my ability to login as administrator when i was trying to set up Parental Controls. Now it does not recognize my administrator name or password. When I try to reset my password by reinstalling MacOSX, it tells me I have to first install Rosetta. When I say yes, it asks for my administrator name and password! ARG! Help please!

Whew, let's see if we can trick it into making a new admin account...
Reset OS X Password Without an OS X CD...
http://theappleblog.com/2008/06/22/reset-os-x-password-without-an-os-x-cd/
Admin Hack...
http://www.hackmac.org/?q=node/4
Starts up like the first time you buy a new Mac, but after filling in all that info again, you should have access to the computer and the other Users & files will still be there... give the new User a different name than an existing one.

Pmap and shared libraries

I'm trying to subtract the "shared" mappings from the output that pmap
produces and show memory usage per process and a separate shared
memory usage for the system.
Pmap shows shared library mappings like this ...
Address Kbytes Resident Shared Private Permissions Mapped File
FF080000 656 616 600 16 read/exec libc.so.1
FF132000 32 32 - 32 read/write/exec libc.so.1
It looks like all processes that have access to libc.so have
the same mapping. It was my understanding that the Shared and Private allocations (at least in the read/exec mapping) were a fixed
characteristic of the particular shared library.
Where is the 40 Kbytes that are not currently used? Virtual, swapped
out?, but would it be Shared or Private?

No, not all processes mapping a shared library have the same
shared/private .text section allocations.
The shared libraries are tuned for maximum sharing, that is they
are compiled as position independant code so most of the .text
section (program code) can be mapped without changes into each
process, at whatever virtual address is appropriate for each
process. All the code that needs to be adapted for a certain
virtual address is concentrated at one place in the .text section
(procedure linkage table, global offset table, ...). This part
of the shared library cannot be shared between processes and is
typically what you see as the "private" part of the .text section
in the pmap -x output. The non sharable .text section part is
just the procedure linkage table, global offset table, ... and
thus is ~ the same size for each process.
By using mprotect on the .text section or by setting breakpoints
into the .text section (to name two exceptions) you are able to
make changes to more parts of the shared .text sections, so that
you get more 'private' pages in a processes' address space. Here's
an example with breakpoints:
<pre>
4% adb /bin/cat
main:b
:r
breakpoint at:
main: save %sp, -0x190, %sp
printf:b
memmove:b
atoi:b
malloc:b
getenv:b
:c
breakpoint at:
getenv: save %sp, -0x60, %sp
</pre>
Now in another window you can verify with pmap -x that cat's copy of
libc.so with several breakpoints (=changes, private copies) in the
.text section has more private memory allocated:
<pre>
FF280000 656 616 568 48 read/exec libc.so.1
</pre>
While some other processes' copy of libc.so at the same time has:
<pre>
FF180000 656 616 592 24 read/exec libc.so.1
</pre>
The 40Kbytes difference you've observed between the .text sections'
size and the resident size are VM pages not loaded in main memory.
If these VM pages have not been changed, then they can be paged in
from the shared lib's file, else there have been changes to these
pages and they resides on the swap space.

Main parental control and Entourage

I set up my child's e-mail with parental controls in Mail. As expected, the messages from "unauthorized" senders are forwarded to my e-mail address. But I use Entourage and I can't figure out how to authorize the appropriate messages. Do I have to switch my account to Mail as well?

Parental control only works with Mail. I wish Apple documented the Parental features better.

I used the parental controls and now safari won't appear on the children's desktop.

Can anybody help please?? I created a separate user account for my children so I could control their time on the computer as well as what websites they visit and now when they log in, Safari is not present on their dashboard nor can they access the internet. Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks.

Sharon...
Possibly a restriction causing this...
Read here > Mac OS X v10.5, 10.6: About the Parental Controls Internet content filter

Mac 10.5 Parental Controls and ASR= Lockup *Problem*

I'm a lab admin at a school and trying to upgrade the OS in my lab (all Macbooks) to 10.5. I made an image with 4 accounts and on the "student" account I used the built in Parental Controls to limit the user.
I used ASR to image 3 machines as a test run for the rest of the lab to make sure that I wasn't going to have any hick-up's.
On all three of the machines the "student" account locks up when you attempt to log-in. (i.e. you get the log-in screen, click on the "student" account, and the computer will not respond.)
I am able to log-in to the other accounts I created so I deleted the "student" account and made a new "student" account with the Parental Controls enabled. After logging out of the admin account and attempting to log-in to the new account I received the same results (the computer locks up).
I deleted that account and attempted to enable Parental Controls on one of the other working accounts that I had originally set up. I received the same results.
Is there anyway to fix this with-out installing 10.5 on each workstation individually??

>I know you don't work for Adobe, but have you heard from an Adobe technician saying that they are aware of this problem for the Mac
No I have not gotten any acknowledgment of this nor heard of an acknowledgment of the similar problem on Windows. The holidays are probably what is keeping them. I ran into this problem when exporting a big folder of images that had lots of brushes and gradients applied and had some enormous (>500 MB files) images in it using my MBP with 4 gigs of memory. I tested it a little and noticed when following Lightroom's memory usage that when I exported the exact same set of images mutliple times, it would keep climbing its memory usage in the 64-bit version and eventually start making the computer beach ball and run like molasses. When I did the same thing in the 32-bit version, the memory usage returned to the same level after each export and it never did the running slow like molasses thing. The same thing happens when I generate 1:1 previews for a large folder. The 64-bit version bogs down, while the 32-bit version keeps working normally.

Lion Parental Controls and secure sites

This is driving me and my son mad. Since "upgrading" to Lion from SL every time he visits a site that uses https an alert box appears saying it needs to be added to Parental Controls, or you click OK to continue. Is there any way to return to the SL way of doing things?
Thanks in advance.

Nobody? Looks like we are stuck with this then. Nice one Apple, why can't you leave stuff alone if it works?

I can't remember my password to change my parental controls and I can't log on to the other admin account

I need help trying to figure out how to unlock my parental controls. I am the admin on the computer but my ex husband also had an account but I dont know the password to his account. I dont want to lose my picturees or anything. What can I do????????????

See
http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/24/reset-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-password/ and
http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/19/change-password-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-without-knowin g-current-password/

Parental Controls and TimeMachine conflict

I'm trying to setup a managed account using parental controls. I want the account to use the SimpleFinder and only certain applications.
Well, the SimpleFinder was a click of a radio button. The selected applications is immensely complicated because the list contains all of the TimeMachine backups. I have like 30 of each application-- most with timestamps of the TimeMachine backup.
Its impossible picking the allowed applications because I'm scrolling through a list of hundreds of Time Machine backups trying to find the entry for the original in the Applications folder.
Any ideas? I'm running 10.5.1 on a G5 iMac. My TimeMachine backup is on another partition on the same harddrive (my external drive died and I'm waiting for a new one). Spotlight is set to ignore the TimeMachine partition.

Hi srlagarto,
I understand your concerns. Please note that controlled lines on Family Locator can be located and will generate Scheduled and Arrival & Departure Updates, except during time restrictions. The service is working as designed.
This service limitation is disclosed in the Usage Controls General Information webpage. To view disclosure please go to webpage and scroll down to question: Will Family Locator work with Usage Controls?

HT1904 parental controls and shared libraries

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for