Leopard's Safari parental controls should have kept Tiger's approach

Parental controls for Safari in Leopard do not work as well as Tiger's. Tiger had the option to allow only sites that are bookmarked. Now you have to add them in the parental control's dialog. But more annoying and worst behavior is that you must approve each variation of a domain. Tiger would allow you to bookmark a site such as:
www.apple.com
and subdomains would automatically be approved such as:
support.apple.com
forums.apple.com
But now you have to approve each sub domain and each variation on the URL for the approved domain. It would be much easier and more effective to control if you allow domain level approval and re-add the option in the Parental Controls dialog to allow only the bookmarked sites again.
Any ideas on how to get around this or make it behave more like Tiger.

Actually, you can still use Safari controls just like Tiger-- dragging sites to the bookmarks bar requests admin approval and then adds them to the bookmarks bar, as well as the user's whitelist for all browsers. Also, the domains/subdomains behavior you mention is present in Leopard. When I add http://pbskids.org to the whitelist, all addresses under http://pbskids.org/ are allowed.

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Safari Parental Controls

Hey Folks - could use some help here... I can't seem to find anyone with the same problem.
I've created a restricted account for my son and understand I must login as him to create bookmarks in his safari browser to websites that I will allow him to visit.
The problem is when I open the browser & try to add a site by entering my admin username & password - nothing happens. Also, when I try to open his bookmarks & type in my admin name & password - it doens't do a thing... but if I hit cancel instead of trying to login - it opens the bookmarks window but I still can't add sites.
Any ideas out there?
Thanks so much in advance.
Mike
P.S. I've tried creating a new account & also got rid of all safari preferences & settings.

Mike,
This is, in my opinion, quite a significant problem with Safari 4 on Mac OS X 10.4.
I handle IT for a school over here in Scotland. The problem with Safari Parental Controls appeared yesterday (Friday). I spent the whole day working on it with no result at all. However, i have some facts about it that i have passed on to Apple for further investigation.
The issue affects both PPC and Intel versions of 10.4.11. it does NOT affect 10.5.7.
I confirmed my results on 10 different Macs. Test the following for me and post results...
1. Create a new user on your Mac. Make that user a Managed one.
2. Enable the Safari Parental Controls.
3. Log in to the account you have just created.
4. Try to visit a site that is not in the bookmarks.
5. Instead of typing in Admin credentials, when prompted, simply click Cancel.
What happens?
6. Now, try it again with proper admin credentials entered and click on OK
What happens?
Thanks for your help.

Safari + Parental Controls Enabled = Problem

Not sure whether to post this in Safari or Snow Leopard. Just wondering if anyone has run into the infamous (for me at least) Parental Controls bug that was present in 10.5 and now it seems it's found a way into 10.6.2. I tried to checkout today at the Apple Store online and also at Wal-Mart to get a black friday deal, neither of the processes would go past the "Check Out Now" button where you would enter your address information. I switched to my Guest user account and magically it worked. Remembering that i could not connect to the iTunes store in 10.5 with parental controls enabled i tried disabling the parental controls for my user and voila! It works. Has anyone else come across this? Nothing big just annoying to have to switch users.
Additional info: I only use it so i won't delete dock icons no internet access is limited and nothing else is set except for cannot change password. I tried it with FireFox (don't use it regularly just downloaded it) and got the same result, would not go past to the checkout.
Thanks!
Richard

K T wrote:
This one?
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=84368
It's a similar problem
The problem in 10.5 was discussed here also:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1512896
It's not a big deal, just a bit frustrating, i do order online a lot.
Since you went to the trouble to ask here, I'd think that not being able to use some of the sites you mentioned would be more important - do you need instructions on how to initiate/replace dock icons?
Haha! No, i've been using Mac OS X long enough i know how it works.

Safari, parental controls or admin password problem?

My grandson was able to access ** sites and add them to his bookmark bar. When asked for the admin password he typed it in wrong 3 times and then it said try again later, he clicked ok and then the add to bookmarks window appeared and he added it. I am using Safari 4. He should not be able to add anything without my password (that he does not have) I tried it and that is how he did it.
Is the problem Safari or is it the admin password box?

I have Safari 4.0.2, Mac OS X 10.4.11, all updates.
I have a 10-year old daughter.
I use the Parent Controls for her Managed account to enable certain websites she can go to. If the website is not part of the Bookmark Bar, she can't go to that website.
That was under Safari v3.x.
In Safari v4.x, with Parental Control mode enabled, go to any website. It is, at first, denied.
Click the "Add Website" button, cancel the Password dialog, you'll get the add to Bookmark
dialog. Click cancel and the website is STILL added to the bookmark. It does this especially when you have a folder on the Bookmark bar. Safari v4 will add the website to folders in the Bookmark bar on the first go-round.
My daughter inadvertently figured this out. She started trying odd names for websites,
including sex.net. She then clicked on a link at that website and, going through the process above, added it and went to the website.
It was only after she shrilled when she saw the images that I came over and saw what she had seen and learned how she got there.
I did searches on this issue and found many others noting that the security Parental Control in Safari v4 simply does not work. (e.g. this Apple discussion).
You've got some explaining to do, Apple.
Bryan C

Using Safari Parental Controls for Myspace

We use Parental Controls for my daughter's MacBook running Leopard 10.5.6. With MySpace, it restricts her at each new page. For instance, mail, photos, her home page etc, we have all manually added so they work OK. BUT, if she gets a new friend, which happens all the time, we have to add those pages as well. It is quite cumbersome and difficult to keep up with. Is there a better way? I would like to just approve the whole site, but it won't let me do that.

The problem is that a lot of these programs actually don't get the proper ratings. This is a bug. For instance:
Take a look at the app for OpenTable. It's rated 4+. But if you go into the app and click "About" in the menu, then go to "help and Support," it pops you into an embedded web browser that is directed to the Opentable website. With a little bit of work, you can get the browser to navigate to Google or somewhere else that will give you carte blanche to see any site, including ****. I have watched this happen with family members, and it reveals a serious defect in the parental controls portion of the iOS ratings system.
Here's how to fix If a browser is embedded in an app, even for reading local HTML, the app gets a 17+. The only ways to avoid the 17+ rating are: (1) use Safari to open HTML pages/links (which honors parental control settings); or (2) restrict all browser activity to either local files or a very select set of remote web pages on a trusted site.

Safari parental controls: disable 'delete browsing history'

Hey I am interested in accountability for web browsing on the iPad. There are a handful of apps available that have built in accountability and web history reporting, however they are all limited in usefulness because they are designed with practicality as a secondary concern. Most are unstable and lack useful features included in safari. However if apple allowed for a parental control that prevented the deleting of browsing history then it would be unnecessary to run a separate app with limited functionality. I can see this as a feature that many groups would be interested in. I wonder if apple would consider it? What do you think

my kids at age 7 are not allowed on the internet and I have to make a safe website list on my wifi router.
I know if they bring it to a friends house then its will be wide open and they are not allowed to do so yet.
I hope a kids safe app will be made or some parental controls to be made available soon
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I have parental controls enabled on a user account to "limit adult websites automatically". Whenever I try to log in to YouTube (with www.youtube.com allowed), it comes up with this:
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I should have kept the iBook...

... because in three years of owning it I didn't have anywhere near the amount of problems that I've had with the bloomin' MBP.
I tell you, it almost, ALMOST makes me look at PCs again.
If it's not the case warp that I'm so delightfully told was caused by my OBVIOUSLY manhandling a £1700 machine, it's the optical drive that seems to delight in rebelliously spitting out every disc I try to put in. Maybe after 50 odd attempts I can get it to read the DVD I might be trying to watch, but to be frank it's getting ridiculous.
It's out of warranty now and I don't have x amount of hundreds of pounds that will no doubt be required for a mend (they wanted £500 odd off me to replace the case alone) and as you can no doubt tell fellow Apple users, I'm getting peeved.
I love my Macs, what I don't love is the amount of issues I've been having on a machine I bought as the 'superior' to my faithful iBook that was nothing but stoic.
So, rant aside, does anyone have any suggestions for what's causing my optical drive's tantrums that doesn't involve the words 'you need to replace the drive'? It's been temperamental since I installed Leopard but it's been the past couple of weeks it's been a downright brat.
sigh
Help?
Message was edited by: Inkers

Don't know if this will help or not, but you could try using Disk Utility to repair permissions, just in case your installation of Leopard messed them up. You could try verifying the disk first, and if you see some read/write permissions that are different than they should be, that could at least be a contributing factor.
Good luck!

If I disable Safari (parental controls), will it disable the wifi capabilities as well?

So I can use apps that depend on WiFi, etc.
Thanks!

Wi-Fi will still works when Safari is disabled.

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Is there a fix to the parental control problem – in Mountain lion? I've been unable to change any control settings for months...should have kept the family PC...this IMAC is garbage at this point.

Although one would think that re-creating the index could fix this problem, that’s not the case. What sometimes works is restarting the computer or doing some cache-cleaning — don’t ask me why, and I don’t know how to fix the problem when that doesn’t work either.
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Saving MS Word docs with Parental Controls

I have set up an account for my kids using parental controls and have managed to add apps I needed, blocked sites, etc. My son is using MS Word for homework, but how can he save work under the kids login and I access it in the main account?
Thank you in advance.

He would need to save it into the Shared folder. On the Macintosh HD, it's under Users / Shared. All users can access this folder.
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Hi, I recently made my son's account on our Mac not the Administrator and I made an account to be the new Admin. This is so that I can turn on the parental controls. I made no choices in the parental controls about iChat, I only used the time limit functions and the log functions. However, now that parental controls are enabled, my son's iChat is not working. It shows up as if he has no buddies, online or offline, and if you add a buddy the new buddy shows up under offline and is blocked. Then the buddy disappears. It seems that iChat is blocking him from talking to anyone. How can you fix this problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Let me see if I have under stood this.
There were at least two accounts on the computer that were Admin ones.
You son had one of these.
You have now made him a Non-Admin and Managed account through Parental Controls
You have created another Admin Account.
With the New Admin account you set the Parental Controls on your Son's account.
You did not do this from the Original Admin Account ?
If......
Your son was using the original Admin account and you set him up with iChat there it will have been linked to the Address Book.
If you then set him up with a new User account that was Not Admin but copied the Address Book across then you can have issues.
I have seen them if you use the iChat/Mail settings where the original Users Info has been transferred across but the Parental Controls overide things (and vice Versa as iChat is then somewhat unusable in the main Admin account as the Buddy List is effectively blocked).
I have not experimented with having two admin accounts and changing the original (first) account to a Managed one.
I have not tried Timed/schedule settings only either
DO NOT DELETE ANY ACCOUNT.
Do things works again if you set him back to an Admin account ?
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Can't access google calendar with parental controls on

We are trying to give our daughter accesss to the family's Google calendar. In the parental controls we have "try to limit adult websites" as the selection. With this on, she is not able to log into the calendar - it gives a message that says something about not being able to establish a secure connection. She can go on the Google homepage without problem and search, etc. - but she can't access the Google sign-in or the calendar.
When we change the parental controls setting to "allow all websites" she can log onto the calendar without any problem.
We also tried adding the various google web address strings under the "customize" tab for "always allow these sites" while still leaving the "try to limit adult websites" as the overall setting. Even with the specific sites approved - she still can't access the calendar.
What's up?? Isn't there a way we can allow her to see the calendar without having to give her unecessary exposure to anything on the net?

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Leopard's Safari parental controls should have kept Tiger's approach

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