Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Mac OS X's Security & Privacy Options = Global for all accounts? Date: 5 Mar 2017 18:02:56 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net NSKjalToAz+GiZ3cmpal8QgzxrzG30IlVOauTd0ZMk8GsPOq82 Cancel-Lock: sha1:X6ZLdNU1QtMH3lAvJEnUyGeeUe8= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:101837 On 2017-03-05, Ant wrote: > Hello. > > I noticed Mac OS X/El Capitan v10.11.6's Security & Privacy Options seem > to affect for all accounts (administrators and standard). I was tweaking > which apps, locations, etc. Firewall is understandable. Is this by > design? I thought it would only affect to the account I was changing in. Yep, it's by design. And it makes perfect sense to me that you would want these settings to apply globally. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR