Parental Controls solution needs a little more tho...

Folks,
Just joined BT and am disappointed by the Parental Controls.
The practicality with 3 stroppy teenagers of getting to all of their devices (mix of Laptops, IPADS, Smart Phones) and installing Macafee S/W on every device in a secure way makes it a non-starter.
I was impressed by the Homehub 4 I received but couldn't get it to work with my old Modem/Router to use OPENDNS (I knew HomeHub doesn't allow DNS changes).
Ended up buying a new router. Cost a lot but what price is worth keeping the unacceptable face of the Internet out of your house.
Anyway - What do people think - Should BT offer a whole home solution like OPENDNS - perhaps through their own DNS servers as they are so clearly keen for thir customers to use them.
Rgs
Simon

BT need to do something. I recently had an issue with someone seeing something accidentally and have tried the following.
Firstly we have a Macbook Pro and an iPad so not so many devices but with a need to do something.
1. Installed McAfee (Family Protect I think it was called?) as offered by BT. It needed to be running as a background app on the Macbook Pro and I immediately had performance issues. It affected my download speed and PING went from a typical 20 to 120. It also for some reason affected the displaying of images which was good but surely not on CBBC. Gave up and removed it.
2. Went to Symantecs website and noticed they had a free offering, so installed it. Must work in a similar way to McAfee as I had the same performance issues. So, removed it.
3. Then went to OpenDNS and installed their free Home Parental Controls. Because of not being able to change the DNS settings on my HH3 I changed the settings on the Macbook Pro and the iPad individually and since it has worked very well. The only issue I have had is that you can't do much about images. My solution for the images issue has been to switch from Google to Bing as my search engine. It seems that OpenDNS does a fairly good job of dealing with Images and Videos when you search with Bing. OpenDNS can instruct Bing to block these but it can't instruct Google. There was no performance hit in using OpenDNS.
This is now my default position which I am trialling.
I have now given my granddaughter affected by the accidental viewing her own account and as OSX has Parental Controls built in I have now restricted her account so that she can only view websites in an acceptable list and no others. If OpenDNS proves satisfactory I will release the shackles and allow more access. It would be good if she could do her own school research unsupervised but not until I am happy. BT need to do something that works and support families.
Out of interest for those with IOS devices, IOS 7 is out this week and I understand that Safari has been beefed up with Parental Controls, perhaps that will offer is hope.
In addition OSX Mavericks is out this autumn and again I am expecting the Parental Controls to be beefed up.

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Parental Controls help needed

I'm a little confused on parental controls.
Applications logging: Nothing shows up at all. Does something have to be done to activate this? Does it only log certain (i.e. Apple) applications?
Websites Visited: Does this only log Safari visits, or will it work with Firefox too? It started working and then just stopped logging.
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I realize this is "user to user" help. Is there an "official" place to get support or report this as a bug?

Parental Controls: I need a range that starts at 10 minutes

I realize my family is NOT typical, but for reasons I won't detail here we need a daily access limit range that starts at 10 minutes.
The range in 10.5.3 starts at 30 minutes.
Are there any known hacks to change that low end setting to 10 minutes?
If any Apple engineer wants to understand why 30 minutes is not a brief enough bottom limit they can email me at [email protected]
Message was edited by: jfaughnan

A friend of mine (Andrew M) suggested the following hack to change the parental controls setting. Note this hack requires editing a root controlled plist. We don't yet know if the hack will persist after reopening the GUI controller.
Still, it suggests a fix others may wish to explore further.
download pseudo
run plist editor via pseudo (runs plist editor as root)
(drag plist editor on top of pseudo)
open /Library/Managed Preferences/[child account name]/com.apple.familycontrols.timelimits.plist
in plist editor, go to root/limits-list/0/allowances/timelimitseconds and set to however many seconds you want
do same thing for root/limits-list/1/allowances/timelimitseconds
save

Apple !!! • We Need A Little More Information From You •

This forum is inhabited by many dedicated Logic users taking a lot of time to help each other and other users that are less experienced.
I think we deserve a little more attention concerning information about compatibility and potential "dangers"
Here's an example :
http://duc.digidesign.com/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=UBB15
Above link is to digidesign's User Forum DUC - Announcements (This thread is by NO means intended as a Logic vs. Pro Tools situation)
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The Digidesign Announcements are very practical and prevents a lot of potential problems.
I think it could help us Logic users help our selves and others if Apple were to make arrangements for the Logic Pro forum to contain something in the nature of what the DUC offers.
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here's a Link - http://answerbase.digidesign.com/
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Why are there so many serious flaws with the Parental Controls in iOS? Even if you disable safari and restrict installing apps 4+, many of these apps have their own browser (i.e. Facebook, CNN,MSN Messenger) that you can get out to the web in. Is apple going to force developers to make any call to the web go thru Safari? Even the ratings for some apps like Youtube need to be raised. The Blackberry 10 parental controls are looking a lot more attractive.

marshal21 wrote:
Is apple going to force developers to make any call to the web go thru Safari?
Only Apple would know and they don't participate here. Submit your feedback to Apple here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback

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.

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Setting parental controls via profile manager

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Here's the problem: if I try to enforce parental controls on the kids' accounts (such as limiting the time they can be on them, etc) it doesn't work. In fact, after the settings get pushed to the client machines, they (the client machines) often will lock-up or start acting really flaky. A reboot "fixes" that, but the parental controls still won't work.
I've tried this literally dozens of times with the same result. Other changes in profile manager, such as restricting access to certain apps, DOES seem to work. It's mainly just the settings related to parental controls that seem to be the problem.
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Unfortunatley I never got this resolved. In fact, it turns out that this is really a bug in how the parental controls work with a "managed" account. All of the other settings that can be managed on OSX server seemed to work just fine in my testing, but the parental controls do not. Or more specifically, the curfew (time limit) settings definitely don't work. It's hard to believe, but apparently this is a use-case Apple never considered. (if you do some googling for parental controls and OSX server you'll find we're not alone)
I don't recall exactly, but if you're trying to determine if changes got pushed to the clients there is something in the profile manager (web UI) that shows "completed tasks" or "active tasks" (or something like that) which should show what was pushed and if it was succssfully received by the client.
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Did parental controls get more strict in Lion?

We have the kid's computer set to block inappropriate sites.
In the previous version, if we'd allow a website such as "www.quizlet.com", it would work right away.   But now in Lion, when going to that website, the panel will come up listing a bunch of other sites that are blocked.   I think some of them are ad sites, not sure though.   Seems to block a lot of sites that start with htps also.
These parental controls are so much more annoying that the previous version!   Anyone else experiencing the same thing?

Fellow frustrated parents:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Fill in the form with your info and specs and use this text as the complaint:
Parental controls is exhibiting some odd behavior on a managed account with parental controls (MAwPC) set to limit the amount of time the user can enjoy:
1) Remaining time decreases at double or triple speed
2) Adding time (when the notification window indicates 15, 10 or 5 minutes remaining) results in sending the managed user to the login screen. The user has to login again and an admin has to re-enter time and password repetitiously. This then loops back to the login screen. A hard reset of the Mac is required to end the loop.
3) A MAwPC user decides to return to the login screen before his/her time limit has expired will result in:
  a) Time expiring instantly (as in #2 above) or,
  b) Time will continue to count down as if the MAwPC was still actively logged in
4) Adding "Rest of Day" sometimes stops the login loop but is not a feasible solution and is not 100% guaranteed to work.
5) The verbal "Logout in 15 minutes" will play once, then a few seconds later, play again.
6) If a MAwPC clicks on the time in the status bar it will sometimes indicate time remaining as negative, e.g., -:15, or double-negative, e.g., -1:-15 -- very odd.
As Mac users with many kids/grandkids using macs in the house, the limited features of parental controls already left me wanting for more finesse. Now in Lion the feature set is completely broken.
Thanks,
[your name]

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