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I attempted to set up a laptop for my daughter before Xmas with my own admin account and hers as a managed account with parental controls on. We fire it up on X

I attempted to set up a laptop for my daughter before Xmas with my own admin account and hers as a managed account with parental controls on. We fire it up on Xmas morning and it's forgotten almost everything I set up - in particular the whitelisted apps. I switch to my user, set it all up again, switch back, it's forgotten again. Did some googling and it turns out this bug has been around for at least two years [1][2]. This seems like absolutely fundamental functionality, there are effectively no parental controls as it's unable to remember any of the settings. [1] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7275030 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7275030 [2] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/220067/cannot-save-changes-made-to-parental-controls-profile https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/220067/cannot-save...

thinkythought 9y ago
Ran into this one at work. We wanted to have a public imac as a simple terminal for clients to use our website and set things up. Nothing that needed to be super secure, basically just to walk them through the interface of our stuff etc if they asked, and that we could leave them alone at without any ability to bork the system. This ended up being such a crapshoot that we had to buy deepfreeze because even the freaking guest account doesn't consistently work the way it should(or, hasn't worked consistently across versions of OSX over the past few years) and basic things like auto updates of software/the OS kept breaking if someone didn't regularly sign into the admin account. It turned from a quick project that should have been easy and apple-y with basic security settings and enabling auto updates into something that someone from the team has to grab a checklist and verify once a month. It's a complete joke. It's worth noting apple literally buys deepfreeze for the systems in their own stores. You'd uh, think that their own functionality in the OS would be able to handle that.

thinkythought 9y ago

Ran into this one at work. We wanted to have a public imac as a simple terminal for clients to use our website and set things up. Nothing that needed to be super secure, basically just to walk them through the interface of our stuff etc if they asked, and that we could leave them alone at without any ability to bork the system. This ended up being such a crapshoot that we had to buy deepfreeze because even the freaking guest account doesn't consistently work the way it should(or, hasn't worked consistently across versions of OSX over the past few years) and basic things like auto updates of software/the OS kept breaking if someone didn't regularly sign into the admin account. It turned from a quick project that should have been easy and apple-y with basic security settings and enabling auto updates into something that someone from the team has to grab a checklist and verify once a month. It's a complete joke. It's worth noting apple literally buys deepfreeze for the systems in their own stores. You'd uh, think that their own functionality in the OS would be able to handle that.