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Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari?

From nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari?
Date 2016-12-10 12:40 -0500
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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In article <UpadnU8KMtXQu9HFnZ2dnUU7-WGdnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
<alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:

> >> The whole "Guest" use account on a Mac is a pretty awful way to allow a
> >> guest access to your computer so he can browse or check his e-mail or
> >> some such.  The machine reboots for the guest and has to be re-booted
> >> again for the 'owner' to get back in.  Tedious, wot.
> >>
> >> I have a guest account for such use at home.  It's not special in any
> >> way but it has no sharing at all of any kind, no backups, no accounts,
> >> no keychains ...  with that a guest could use all the installed apps.
> >
> > Without FileVault, my guest account can use any apps that I haven't as
> > admin blocked it from.  So apparently the "tedious" way is only if you
> > turn on FileVault.
> 
> There is no reason to not turn on Filevault.

yes there are.

in addition to the guest account issue, two more that come to mind is
that it's a big performance hit on older macs and that a server won't
be able to reboot unattended, such as after a power outage.

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Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-12-09 01:09 -0600
  Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-12-09 23:18 +1300
  Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-10 04:21 +0000
  Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-10 10:19 -0500
    Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-12-10 09:51 -0600
      Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-10 10:59 -0500
        Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-12-10 12:40 -0500
          Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-10 12:52 -0500
            Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-12-10 13:04 -0500
              Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-10 13:23 -0500
              Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-10 21:15 +0000
          Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-10 21:35 +0000
            Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-12-10 16:52 -0500
              Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-10 17:42 -0500
              Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-11 01:58 +0000
                Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-12-11 07:36 -0500
                Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-11 17:38 +0000
                Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-11 09:23 -0500
            Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-10 17:35 -0500
              Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-11 02:13 +0000
                Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-12-11 07:36 -0500
                Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-11 09:25 -0500
        Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-12-10 19:09 -0600
          Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-12-10 20:11 -0500
          Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-11 02:15 +0000
          Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-11 02:50 +0000
            Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-12-11 00:37 -0600
              Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-12-11 07:36 -0500
          Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-11 08:41 -0500
    Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-10 21:34 +0000
      Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-10 17:32 -0500
        Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-11 02:12 +0000
      Re: Mac OS (X)'s guest accounts can't use other apps beside its Safari? "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-12-10 19:19 -0600

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