Parental controls web content issue

HI - I have a computer lab with 35 G4 PPC laptops runing tiger. Locking those down was a piece of cake. I have been trying to achieve the same with another lab running Mountain Lion. I have created a managed user with access to only a few apps and safari. In the Web content tab I select "Limit access to only these websites". I removed all the default domains in the list and tried putting only a couple for testing, wikipedia and a school website. WHen I log in as the managed user the app restrictions seem to work but not the browser restrictions. As that user i can still go to any url. Am I missing something else in the System Prefs? I would really like to get this lab locked down like my other one.

Ok I think I can close this. It appears to work now. I dont really know why we had the initial issues. Managed user accounts we created on the lab workstations would not obey the web restrictions we set up. I even tried on my mac mini (10.8.4) and created a new managed account with the same restrictions, logged in and the web restrictions would not work; I could browse everywhere.
Yesterday at home with my mac mini (I take it back and forth to work) just for grins I logged in as the managed user. The web restrictions worked. Took the mac mini back to work this morning and tried and the web restrictions worked on the managed account worked.
Maybe all we needed to do is reboot? The only thing I can think of is there is some daemon that only starts on boot if there are existing managed accounts. Dunno.

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I have an individual mobile me account which has successfully migrated to iCloud. I am keen for the kids to start learning e-mailing. Is there a family pack as in the old MobileMe? I am keen to have parental control over content.

I have an individual mobileme account on icloud.
I am keen to start the kids on e-mailing with individual accounts, but I am keen to control content.
Does iCloud offer a similar pack to the old mobileme family pack?

There are no family packs for iCloud.
If you want them to have their own accounts and monitor their email, add their accounts as secondary accounts to your own (system preferences > mail, contacts & calendars > add account).

Non-iTunes Store Content: Parental Controls

I'm trying to figure out how to use iTunes parental controls on content that I did not download from the iTunes Store. The contents contains both songs and videos that I downloaded from another site and ripped from CDs.
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
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Sorry, but Parental Controls won't work with material you import from CD or another source, only with the iTunes Store. The solution to Parental Controls for other material is for you, the parent, to control what you put in iTunes for any user account to which your kids have access. The best route would be to set up an account in Mac OS X just for your kids, and only put into that account's iTunes those tracks you wish your kids to listen to.

I am having issues with parental controls. My kids are able to access websites that are NOT on our approved list.

My children are only allowed to access certain websites, but as of late have been able to bypass the list by typing in a website.

Check out KB Article Mac OS X v10.5, 10.6: About the Parental Controls Internet content filter - Apple Support and Configuring Parental Controls for possible solutions.

Safari can't establish secure connection in parental controls managed user account

Hi,
Safari can't establish any secure connection in parental controls managed user account. Normal web sites open OK, but secure connections, like Gmail which requires https doesn't work. This is what I get instead:
Safari can’t open the page “https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&rm=false& continue=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F%3Fui%3Dhtml%26zy%3Dl&bsv=llya694 le36z&scc=1&ltmpl=default&ltmplcache=2&from=login” because Safari can’t establish a secure connection to the server “www.google.com”.
Any ideas how to overcome this?

Do you have anti virus software installed, or Peer Guardian?
"https note: For websites that use SSL encryption (the URL will usually begin with https), the Internet content filter is unable to examine the encrypted content of the page. For this reason, encrypted websites must be explicitly allowed using the Always Allow list. Encrypted websites that are not on the Always Allow list will be blocked by the automatic Internet content filter."
From here:
Mac OS X v10.5, 10.6: About the Parental Controls Internet content filter

Parental Controls: Destroys Firefox Cookies

After turning on parental controls, and after adding specific sites to "always allow" Firefox was thereafter unable to use any cookies. I tried everything (deleting the cookies, rebooting, reinstalling Firefox, etc.). The same problem was not occurring in Safari, so it seems to be Firefox-specific.
After I disabled the parental controls, the problem persisted.
After I deleted the parental control profile for the account, the problem went away and Firefox works normally now.
I therefore conclude that Parental Controls have two issues:
1 Disabling content filters is not as thorough as deleting the parental control profile.
2 Parental controls have a negative impact on cookie use in Firefox.

Thank you for your reply.
In addition to the above, I believe it is a major error to disallow access to any and all secure sites (https://). Yes, the data is encrypted and can't be scanned and filtered, but that's an arbitrary elimination of half the Internet with a setting that's buried in the software.
There should be a little checkbox in the parental controls that says:
*[ ] Allow secure sites (https)*
Most sites start with a non-secure page and then take the user to a secure site. The filter should review that initial page, then give the go-ahead for the secure portions.
Apple must remember that the purpose of an Internet filter is to remove all the garbage, not control people's computing lives. I reluctantly return to Intego (http://intego.com) for a solution.

Smart Wi-Fi error 2178 while editing parental controls - EA2700 router

Hi, I am seeing an "unexpected error 2178" while trying to edit the parental controls in Linksys Smart Wi-Fi. I have been editing the parental controls without any issues previously and wondering why this happened? My EA2700 router has the latest firmware 1.1.39.145204. I have tried other computers and get the same error code. I have also tried to disable the firewall, reboot the PC, router and modem. Linksys defines the troubleshooting error 2178 as "Only one edit pane can be opened at a time. The existing pane will be displayed" which makes little sense as there is only one standard pane anyway, and i don't open Smart Wi-Fi in other computers simultaneously. I think this error has something to do with the Linksys server. The expanded detail of the error message says: /jnap/parentalcontrol/SetParentalControlSettings -- Status: 200 OK Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 Connection: close Content-Length: 38 Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 02:31:02 GMT Server: lighttpd/1.4.28
Other editing functions in Smart Wi-Fi works normally, only the parental controls. The router also works fine. Help on this is much appreciated!

Is there any representative from Cisco that reads this forum? I certainly would like Cisco to check their server for any bug that is causing this error! This is getting really frustating with no support from Cisco at all. Big regret buying this router!!

Safari disappears when I set parental controls

I have set up accounts for my children with parental controls but the accounts do not have access to Safari. I have checked the Safari box in preferences but a big question mark appears where the icon should be. Can you help?

This article may help > Mac OS X v10.5, 10.6: About the Parental Controls Internet content filter

Rman causing control file contention

Hi,
may i ask for your opinions and advice regarding control file contention issues.
last week when rman was running it caused a locking issue with another session in another node and based on ash/awr reports there was a control file contention issue..
in need of your advice and opinions
thanks.

Hi,
I have too little experience with RAC, so you better wait for some answers from experts on that matter.
Nevertheless, my thoughts are as follows:
* You have enqueue contention, and this should be taken care of by the GES part of your CRS layer: maybe a place to check if you can trace back any problems.
* I thought that the version management should be like : CRS version >= ASM version >= DB version .... and this is no longer your situation since your CRS version seems to be 10g when your database run 11g.
Maybe you could also mention if you use ASM, and where your control files are located.
Again, wait for experienced answers...
HTH,
Thierry

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

Parental Controls don't work correctly under Yosemite

I'm having some serious issues with Parental Controls under Yosemite, issues serious enough that Parental Controls prove to be worthless under Yosemite as currently implemented.
This is a clean install of Yosemite upgraded to current version 10.10.1.
Symptoms:
Using the child's account with parental controls active, when the parental control blocks a website, a dialog comes up offering to allow the parent/admin to approve the site and add it to the exceptions list. This is nice! Unfortunately, approving the website DOES NOT add it to the exceptions list... ever. We discovered this when launching Keynote, which kept trying to connect to an akamai.net server (probably an update check). We would sign in with the admin account to clear the server, then it would pop up with the same dialog box again. We did discover that I _can_ add the site via the Parental Controls prefpane, but kind of a pain. Why have a dialog box pop up if it doesn't actually work.
Time limits don't seem to be obeyed at all in Yosemite, child played on his account for 2 hours despite being set to 1/2 hour a day.
Some apps just lock up on launch (I do NOT use any app controls). I suspect (but can't demonstrate with certainty) that they are accessing blocked websites in the background. Two of the hanging apps are Pages and Keynote (current versions), apps I would expect to behave properly.
For now, I have disabled parental controls, as they are worthless in this form and just make for a frustrating experience for all. It has been disappointing that a feature that used to come in handy (mostly the time limits) has become completely worthless now.

Apple doesn’t routinely monitor the discussions. These are mostly user to user discussions.
Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.
Feedback
Or you can use your Apple ID to register with this site and go the Apple BugReporter. Supposedly you will get an answer if you submit feedback.
Feedback via Apple Developer

Setting parental controls and allow safari access

when is set parental controls i can't fine safari (although it's checked) in the guest user profile of my applications

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

Having an issue with Parental Controls...

Hi, I'm having an issue with Parentel Controls.
I run several student labs set with parental controls on the systems for a higher education facility. We don't have restricted access to web content (our students need to look up a lot of things, even some that would be considered racey, it's an arts school) and when I set it to "Allow Unrestricted Access" to web content, about a week or so later I'll start getting reports that content is being blocked. I go to check, and sure enough the controls are set to "restrict access to content".
I've had two interations of this issue thus far and it's a pane to go through each system (there are a lot of systems) and manually reconfigure them back to default.
Any tips?

My son could not interact with sites (log in, post) but he could access them (when parental controls were turned on). I had to go under "preferences" on Firefox (under his name) First go to the drop down the menu from the word "Firefox" then "Preferences" "Privacy" (at the top) then "Exceptions" on the right..... and add each address of the sites and pages I wanted to allow. That worked like a charm!! Maybe pull up the itunes STORE address, copy and paste it in "always allow" (you can choose "block" also.....) This is in Firefox PREFERENCES, not just the parental control section.....
Let us know if that helped! Apple was NO help. (I am an Apple fan, but I am not paying 49.99 to get a question answered by someone who didn't sound like he knew anything, anyway...) I think when you pay for a computer you deserve to have ALL the features work... Is that too much to ask?

Web Browsing with Parental Controls

Question: I have a daughter that is almost 8 now and is starting to get around the net quite well now. My issues is I'm on Tiger 10.4.11 and it don't have the parental controls that leopard 10.5 has. Is there a quick fix for this or is my only 2 options would be to upgrade to leopard which I really don't want to or purchase a security software.
David

sorry my recent post on logs kind of speaks forebodingly about safe eyes...somehow a logger that I cannot track with anti-vandal has found way in...other than that their program works well...You may also check out intego's Content Barrier X%.
Apples parental controls work but they do not filter well...all you can really do is allow only certain websites...WATCH OUT FOR THE KIDS GAMES>>A Close friend had over 70 viruse hit because they were latching onto the games
Hope you have success
Also check out K-9 web protection....Email them to see if the Mac version has been upgraded enough to get out the bugs..Mac version was new 6 mos ago
Their program is totally free.

[sce8000 web filtering / parental controls]

Hi, All:
In a couple of Cisco URLs it says that the SCE8000 integrates with Websense (and AdvancedMobile) to support url filtering and parental controls. See here:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/prod/collateral/ps7045/ps6129/ps6257/ps6135/white_paper_c11-606444.html
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/ps7045/ps6129/ps6133/ps9591/siminn_cs.pdf
Can you please confirm this is true and tell me exactly which Websebse product is supported? is it websense web filter or websense web security?
I contacted a Websebse rep yesterday and they are not aware of being able to integrate with the sce8000 and don't know the product that integrates with the sce8000.on the web i found mentions of websense CPA and the sce8000 , which websense tells me is a completely different product than web filter or web security.
please advice,
c.

Carlos,
I'm not sure whether websense has declared EoS for CPA, but better contact following Knepher, Jonathan [mailto:[email protected]
further contact your local cisco team, as there were plans of Cisco Business unit to integrate SCE with Cisco WSA for content filtering, further you can also look for bright cloud webroot solution as there were plans to integrate this with SCE8K by end of this quarter.

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