Why don't the parental controls on the mac pro work? I have the settings correct.

Why don't the parental controls work on the mac pro?

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
b) add a new Admin with a new password. use it ONLY for Administration. Log in to it and demote your own Account to a non-Admin. Then go back to your own account, which cannot be used to add privileges. When you want to install something, you will type the Admin username and password.
c) have a deeply serious discussion about building TRUST and giving her increasing responsibilities toward becoming a free-standing responsible adult.
NB> Remember that pørn, while it may be repugnant, is not the "real" enemy on the Internet. The real enemy is unsupervised CHAT. Pørn will not arrange to meet your child after school.

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Ok, so this is a bit of an odd question, I think. When I turn on my computer, I can hear it boot up only the display doesn't work. Blank screen. Cnce it's booted up, if I press the volume button, I can hear it changing volume, if I open itunes, I can hear it playing music, so I know the computer is working, just no picture.
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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?
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Sharon...
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Read here > Mac OS X v10.5, 10.6: About the Parental Controls Internet content filter

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then enter
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enter
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