Whitelisting IP addresses after Parental Controls

When I enable webfiltering of stuff like Twitter using Parental Controls on the networked iMacs I control via ARD, it seems to block https traffic on sites I'd like to still allow, like Gmail and Yahoo Mail.
I know I can get around this by whitelisting particular IP addresss for those sites using Terminal, but what's the syntax?

...Imessages keeps asking for a new IP every time...
Are you sure? That doesn't make much sense to me...
Other than that, each website (read: domain) has an IP address. E.g. apple.com is 17.149.160.49. So, whatever you're up to, you can always use either domain names or IP addresses.
But not sure if that helps you with what you're up to or what you need. So, explain a bit more or better, please?

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Blue screen after Parental Control times out

I upgraded our two-month-old iMac to 10.5.1 yesterday expressly so we could limit our kids' time on the computer. Now, when their account times out the screen goes all blue and there's no log-in screen. The only way to get a log in screen is to shut down and restart. And no, we don't have application enhancer. Already checked that. Anybody else experiencing this?
(The wife is also complaining because all her applications--especially Mail-- are running much slower since upgrading. Now I'm just another Mac fanatic with egg on my face...sigh)

I just logged into this discussion looking for the same issue and am experiencing it as well. When you click cancel at the extend time popup you often get the blue screen and a spinning icon in the middle of the screen. My only recovery has been to shutdown and restart.
I have a older iMac 1.8 ppc 20" and leopard. I also had a bad slowness issue and have since archived and re-installed. After doing that, my speed returned and it is MUCH faster now.. You may just try that.
I'd also like to post a related question that I have (hopefully someone at Apple may see this post), In regards to the Parental Controls. If I want to set a 3 hour daily max time, when that time is up, it seems to just return the to the sign on screen but DOES NOT actually log the user out. Im not sure if that is possible under 10.5.1 but it would be nice if it was. Or at least the option to set it at the user level to actually log them out. Has anyone else experienced this or have a suggestion?
thx

Can I get back bookmarks that disappeared after parental controls were added?

I made a misstake. I was testing out parental controls and it prompted me to create an administrator account and put my account under parental controls. When I did that and applied restrictions to my account i set it so that only accepted sites (ones allowed by the administerator and in the bookmarks bar) could be visit.
After a few days I went back and deled the administrator and got rid of parental controls but now all my bookmarks and folders are gone.
Is there a way I can get all my bookmarks back?
(I don't have a time machine hooked up, but I am running OSX 10.7 Lion)

Sorry for the confusion, but I had account 1 (which is my account) when I initiated parental controls it asked me to create an adminsitrator account, so I created account 2 (a new adminstrator account). When a deleted the adminstrator acccunt (account 2) thus deactivating the aparental controls, all the bookmarks that were hidden during parental controls were now gone. So I was just curious if they were deleted or if somehow I can find the file that contains all my bookmarks (maybe it's just hidden). Thanks!

Under Parental Controls

Please help. I just purchased a new iMac and I was trying to set up the parental controls. There is a section where you can give access to only certain emails. I added a few but need to delete some and I have looked everywhere for a delete or edit option and I can't get rid of them. There is nothing in the small handbook we were given. I am sure it is something right under my nose, but I can't seem to figure out how to do it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

I'm a bit confused but I'll give it a try.
When you add an allowed contact and check "add person to my address book", That adds the contact information to your (the administrator) addressbook. That contact may already exist in your addressbook. To edit or modify that information you open your Addressbook application. The two functions are seperate.
You can add allowed email addresses in Parental controls without adding that person to your addressbook or you can select an existing contact in Your addressbook.

Synchronisation address book with Yahoo as Parental control is activated

I can't help my son, with parental control, to synchronize his address book with his Yahoo account.
After watching the history into parental control settings, i saw that it tries to go here:
ssl-us.yimg.vip.ac4.yahoo.net
I tried to go to this site with my admin account and the answer is:
ssl-us.yimg.vip.ac4.yahoo.net utilise un certificat de sécurité invalide.
Le certificat n'est valide que pour sec.yimg.com.
Could you help us to fix this problem,
What should I do ?
Is this really an invalide site ?
Thank you

I just synced my new iPhone (iOS 5.0.1) with the Address Book on my Mac which runs 10.5.8 and iTunes 10.5.2. I launched iTunes and then I connected the iPhone to the Mac. It appeared on the DEVICES list in the left column in iTunes. I selected it and then the Summary screen appeared in the right part of the iTunes window.
In the Backup section of the Summary you can choose whether to 'Back up to iCloud' or 'Back up to this computer'. Even if you have 'Back up to iCloud' selected, there is a 'Sync' button in the bottom right hand corner of the iTUnes window where you can manually initiate a sync with the Mac.
Hope this helps,
Dave

Parental Controls Broken After Updating an Application

I'm using Parental Controls (remotely) under 10.5.4 to manage what applications can be opened in a small lab. This works well until I need to update an application on the lab computers. I'll use Firefox as an example, but this happens with all applications.
- I have a version of Firefox on all lab computers (3.0) and Firefox is allowed under parental controls. Everything works.
- I update Firefox to 3.0.1. (In this case, I simply overwrote the older version of firefox, but I get this problem when updating applications with installers.)
- If I remotely look at the Parental Controls settings for the lab computer, I can see that Firefox is still allowed (checked)
- Now, on the lab computer, I log into the managed account and try to open Firefox, I get a warning about the application not being on the allowed list.
- I log out of the lab computer, and again, access the parental controls setting remotely. Now Firefox is Not Allowed (unchecked).
- I check the box to allow Firefox
- Now when I log into the managed account, the new version of Firefox opens.
Some fixex / workarounds I have tried:
- After updating Firefox, I remotely accessed the parental controls settings and first disallowed (unchecked) Firefox, close parental controls, reopened it, and then allowed (checked) Firefox. When logged into the managed account, opening Firefox produced the not allowed error. When I return to the Parental Controls settings, Firefox is now Not Allowed (unchecked). Checking the box to allow Firefox fix the error.
- I've tried restarting after updating Firefox and it did not work.
My guess:
I assume that Leopard keeps a list of applications and versions installed on the computer. Parental Controls allows a specific combination and any update will break the parental controls. To allow this updated application to be opened, its old entry in the list must be updated to reflect the new version. The only way I have figured out how to do this, is to try and open the updated application and fail. Then I can finally allow the updated version.
Does anyone know of an automated or scritable way to do this. I have tried working with lsregister, but have not had any success. I need a way to force Leopard to reload / refresh its list of installed applications, with having a user logged into the console.
For a different solution, does if you can send a UNIX command to machine sitting on it login screen, that will cause the machine to login as a local console user. I could then send "open /path/to/updated app" and a logout to force the application list to be refreshed.
Many Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi! Did you ever receive any feedback on this issue?
I am interested since I have noticed the exact same frustration with Parental Controls since updating to 10.5.
While a very good idea, I think the parental controls, especially with respect to permissions about applications is utterly useless at the moment. It is completely stupid that I have to reset the permissions for applications each and every time I update an application. I have three children who use the computer and I don't want them using every bit of software on the eMac. They are naturally curious and will click on programs that can do damage without realizing is.
I have also turned off any parental controls regarding web browsing but my children still hit many sites that are blocked by Parental Controls. I do have a linux gateway that does the filtering quicker and better.
If anyone at Apple is listening ... please spend some time to fix this for the next update.
Thank you.

Why cannot I view my passwords in keychain after having set up parental controls?

I used to be able to open keychain, click on any particular key, click on the box "view password" and see the password after entering my administrator name and master password. Then, I set up parental controls on my macbook pro because I got tired of seeing all the pornographic ads and such that would often pop up when I did a google search. Now, any time I need to see one of my passwords, I only get a dialog box stating that "access is denied." Any ideas on how to solve this frustrating problem?

hello gstout, you can use the no squint extension - it allows you to set a global zoom level for all sites: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/nosquint/

Parental Controls Time Limits circumvented after upgrading to 10.6.5

Sometime after upgrading to Mac OS 10.6.5, my son discovered a way to circumvent some of the time limits in Parental Controls.
Here is the procedure: If I have allotted him 30 minutes, before his allotted time runs out, all he has to do is return to the Login Window (by any means) and then log in again. Doing this resets the time he has used up back to zero, meaning he gets another 30 minutes of computer use upon logging in (or whatever amount of time he was originally allotted). If he lets his time completely run out, the hack doesn't work.
This didn't seem to be possible in Mac OS 10.6.4, but I don't know at what point my son discovered this hack. He likely discovered the hack by logging out to conserve his allotted time while he went to the bathroom, and upon logging back in, was treated with this lovely bonus.
Not only would it be nice to have this security hole plugged, it would be nice to be able to check how much time is left (like, perhaps a countdown timer in the menu bar while my son is logged in) instead of having to wait for the pop up windows that gives 15-, 10-, and 5-minute warnings.

Makes perfect sense to me that ending one session by logging out enables him to begin a new session by logging back in. I give the young man credit for figuring out how to get around this deficiency in Parental Controls, as, deep down, I'm sure you do, too.
If you can't trust him to stick to his agreed upon half an hour a day, you can always (threaten to) lock him out of the computer for 23.5 hrs/day using the Bedtime settings. ; )

I just set an administrators name (my full name) and password for parental controls (using the one I always use) and now after restarting and trying to make changes to aprental controls it does not recognize my password

I just set an administrators name (my full name) and password for parental controls (using the one I always use) and now after restarting and trying to make changes to aprental controls it does not recognize my password

Hello, do you have another admin account to log into for a test?

Parental control log viewer - still broken after all these years

I check this with every major OS X update. I know this has been a bug since 10.5, I think it goes back much further.
First, some background. In all versions of OS X there's a "logs" feature that allows an admin to see the sites a user has visited. It's the primary way for an involved parent to teach wise computer use. Set parental controls to 'automatic', let the user go, then review the logs with your favorite teen.
Problem is, the log viewer only expands horizontally. So many entries can't be read. You see only the beginning of many site labels or URLs. The window control has been broken too -- it shows the normal resize control even though it only works in one direction.
So Apple fixed it in 10.7
Not the window mind you. They fixed the control. Now it shows the window can only resize vertically.
Yes. The engineer was in the code. And they left the window broken but fixed the control.
It's a conspiracy. Apple is trying to drive me crazy.
I think it's working ...

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Using ARD to copy Parental Control Whitelist?

I'm relatively familiar with ARD and use it to manage many aspects of a 50+ mac school. Older students have accounts (and thus Parental Controls) managed by Snow Leopard Server, but each computer also has a local account which is managed by the Parental Controls on the local computer. Unfortunately Parental Controls in Snow Leopard turn out to have a rather disasterous bug which prevents connections to secure sites. This is causing havoc when students try to use the state-mandated testing sites. We of course filter at other levels, but we have to have Parental Controls in place in this account.
All I wish to do is use ARD to copy whichever files are necessary to copy a master "Whitelist" to each of the client computers, but I've had no luck whatsoever figuring out how to do this.
So, let's say "Master" is my master computer and "Clients 1-50" are the rest of the systems. I should be able to go into my "Master" computer admin account, access Parental Controls for my "master copy" of my "localstudent" account, set the whitelist for that account, and then copy the necessary files to every client machine in a few seconds using ARD.
Can anyone please (PLEASE) tell me which files I need to copy?
Thanks in advance!

I've located a couple threads on this topic here and at other forums, but the solutions are always absurdly complex and cumbersome (and, the ones I've tried returned errors, so no go anyway). Every setting on a computer (other than those few in firmware, such as your Startup Disk preference) have *got* to be in a file of some kind somewhere, and thus should be able to be copied from one computer to another.
Does nobody know where this darn whitelist file is stored?
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After Mavericks upgrade, Parental Controls shows error

When trying to change settings in Parental Controls for a user, it shows "error occurred in Parental Controls pane". The prevous OS was Lion and I was using Parental Controls to limit the hours for the user.

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<error: 0x7fff749e1b50> { count = 1, contents =
"XPCErrorDescription" => <string: 0x7fff749e1e60> { length = 18, contents = "Connection invalid" }
3/25/14 9:48:33.854 PM launchservicesd[53]: Application App:"System Preferences" asn:0x0-72072 pid:700 refs=8 @ 0x7fec18425960 tried to be brought forward, but isn't in fPermittedFrontApps ( ( "LSApplication:0x0-0x79079 pid=735 "SecurityAgent"")), so denying. : LASSession.cp #1481 SetFrontApplication() q=LSSession 100005/0x186a5 queue
3/25/14 9:48:33.854 PM WindowServer[128]: [cps/setfront] Failed setting the front application to System Preferences, psn 0x0-0x72072, securitySessionID=0x186a5, err=-13066
3/25/14 9:48:54.000 PM kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x1099c8000): p=733[com.apple.prefer] final status 0x1000a00, denying page sending SIGKILL
3/25/14 9:48:54.000 PM kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: process 733[com.apple.prefer]: rejecting invalid page at address 0x1099c8000 from offset 0x1000 in file "/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/MacO S/ksadmin" (cs_mtime:1337806864.0 == mtime:1337806864.0) (signed:1 validated:1 tainted:1 wpmapped:0 slid:0)
3/25/14 9:48:54.829 PM System Preferences[700]: view service marshal for <NSRemoteView: 0x7fd42853b640> failed to order out windows in service window group for which service is presenter due to Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "Couldn’t communicate with a helper application." (The connection was invalidated from the other process or the connection name was invalid.) UserInfo=0x600000664b80 {NSDebugDescription=The connection was invalidated from the other process or the connection name was invalid.}
timestamp: 21:48:54.829 Tuesday 25 March 2014
process/thread/queue: System Preferences (700) / 0x101a64000 / com.apple.NSXPCConnection.user.endpoint
code: line 2972 of /SourceCache/ViewBridge/ViewBridge-46.2/NSRemoteView.m in __57-[NSRemoteView viewServiceMarshalProxy:withErrorHandler:]_block_invoke
domain: communications-failure
3/25/14 9:48:54.845 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.preferences.parentalcontrols.remoteservice[733]) Exited: Killed: 9
3/25/14 9:48:55.111 PM ReportCrash[737]: Saved crash report for com.apple.preferences.parentalcontrols.remoteservice[733] version 1.0 (1.0) to /Users/robert/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/com.apple.preferences.parentalcont rols.remoteservice_2014-03-25-214855_Primo-Mac-5.crash
3/25/14 9:50:55.479 PM com.apple.preferences.parentalcontrols.remoteservice[743]: Parental Controls Pref Remote Service launching
3/25/14 9:50:55.510 PM com.apple.preferences.parentalcontrols.remoteservice[743]: assertion failed: 13C64: liblaunch.dylib + 25164 [38D1AB2C-A476-385F-8EA8-7AB604CA1F89]: 0x25
3/25/14 9:50:55.526 PM com.apple.preferences.parentalcontrols.remoteservice[743]: assertion failed: 13C64: liblaunch.dylib + 25164 [38D1AB2C-A476-385F-8EA8-7AB604CA1F89]: 0x25
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<error: 0x7fff749e1b50> { count = 1, contents =
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I've got two parental controlled acounts set up on my kids computer which is running 10.8.3.
If they don't log out and the system locks from inactivity, when they go to log in it hangs. I havent' been able to confirm, but it might only occurr when there time limit is reached while they are logged out.
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