Need to put parental controls on laptop on which we currently don't have administrator account
My teenage son has a Macbook Pro on which he is the administrator. He has been using his computer without parental controls, however, for a variety of reasons which aren't worth mentioning here, we have decided he needs parental controls.
How can we put parental controls on his computer if he is the administrator? Ideally, we would create a new administrator account for us as parents and "demote" his account to non-administrator status. Then we would impose the parental controls on him.
We can also explore using 3rd party software, but would like to see if it is possible to achieve this goal first using the OS X software.
Thanks very much in advance for your help!
You can't create a new account from a non-admin account. Of course, it's a fairly trivial matter to reset the password on an admin account, given physical access and a moment's privacy. So at a minimum, you'll need to check that account periodically. If you find you can't log in anymore, he's gotten access to it by resetting the password.
Regarding keyloggers, the issue there is that they are a bit of a gray area. Some keyloggers are legit, while others are malware. I don't have any experience with which ones are which... Even legit keyloggers creep me out a bit.
No idea what other software there is for parental controls at this point... I've passed the point where I am in the market for such things. :)
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