Why do Lion's Parental Controls have problems?

When I try to open a restricted application on my iMac, it says you aren't allowed to open it, but it keeps on bouncing. Can someone tell me why?

hynt20 wrote:
I am also having similar issues - I have controls in place for both week days and weekends, limited to 1hr and 3hrs respectively as well as a limit between 8pm and 6am.
The account is saying that I can login at 12am, this was at 7pm. When we try to login, it also says the allocated time has expired.
This is wacky.
Any ideas?
Have you checked your account in System Preferences > Users And Groups and checked that the Parental Controls box isn't ticked for your account?

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I am set as the administrator able to make changes and one day my daughter was set as the administrator. I did not make the change.
How old is your daughter?
Is it possible she has seen you type your password, and given herself admin rights? Or used your user_id when you stepped away from the computer?
If so, you will need to do one or more of:
a) change your password. This leaves you open to having her watch and take the new password. You can also "require password after nnn minutes of screensaver" in System Preferences > Security
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Hello,
Does anyone know how to check if parental controls have been installed on my Mac. I have a lot of issues going to certain websites and my safari was having issues loading. Plus I had weird files on my disk that would set to different numbers. I'm not a child and believe someone linked my laptop. Please help remove controls.

Privateperson87,
to check if any user is under parental controls, log in as your administrative user and open the Users & Groups pane of System Preferences. It will show your users on the left-hand side of the window, and whether those users are administrative, “standard” (i.e. non-administrative), or “managed” (i.e. under parental controls).

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Hello.
Ive been looking for a couple of days for a fix for this. The issue im having is running parental controls on an account (any settings enabled/disabled, even with no web access permissions) and using a proxy (http, https, ftp) to connect to the internet. Connected as a standard/administrator user I can connect to the internet fine, but as soon as parental controls are enabled i cannot. I can't even connect to a local address without an error in the browser.
I have tried this on multiple lion computers with the same outcome.
The error im getting is:
Chrome: is no data received, no server data was sent.Error 324
Firefox is the default connection was reset error
And safari dosen't even give an error just a white screen.
And external programs don't seem to work.
The computer is 100% uptodate.

Parental controls use an internal proxy which ignores the proxy set in Network Preference. By making the internal proxy non-executable to the user with parental controls request can be passed to the external proxy.
You can run the following command from Apple Remote Desktop as root (or locally with sudo).
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Hi Dialoguy,
Do you have your Mac set up that the Family acount is also a Non Admin Account ?
AT THIS STAGE DO NOT DELETE THE HOMEWORK ACCOUNT
Is the AIM or .mac account he signs in with in Homework the same one used in the Family account ?
Would it be even if it worked ? (had some allowed Buddies)
I have seen one occassion when Parental Controls were not to the perosons liking and they deleted the whole Mac USer Account without turning Off Parental Controls which caused them endless problems.
There was a recent Post about the fact that Jabber accounts can not be blocked (and there are AIM Transports out there to get around any AIM name blocks).
EDIT to that info. iChat help says Jabber and Bonjour is disabled at that time.
If the Family account is not the Mac's Admin acount account I would log on as the Admin account and try turning Parental Controls off there.
I would also check that the Family account if a standard one does not show itself to have Parental controls.
The documentation in iChat help states it is for one Mac User account at a time.
Quote
Using Parental Controls with iChat
If you are using Mac OS X v10.4 or later, and have your computer set up with other, nonadministrator user accounts, you can control who the other users of the computer can chat with. Using Parental Controls you can add only the buddies you want the other user to chat with.
To add buddies to other users' parental controls:
1. Open System Preferences and click Accounts.
2. Select a user account and then click Parental Controls.
3. Select the iChat checkbox and then click Configure.
4. Click the Add button and select a buddy from the list.
5. If there are no buddies in the list, click New Person and enter the buddy's .Mac account or AIM screen name.
Only the buddies you add will be available for chats.
Parental Controls work only with AIM buddies. If you use Parental Controls, local buddies and Jabber buddies will not be available to the user you set up with Parental Controls.
See also
security.
I can replicate this with a test Mac User account using the same iChat name and Fast User Switching.
Closing IChat and restarting does not help.
The Test account does not have Multiple Logins allowed at present.
More details to follow
2:06 PM Friday; February 17, 2006

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.

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Why do Lion's Parental Controls have problems?

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