HT201813: Mac OS X v10.5, 10.6: About the Parental Controls Internet content filter
Learn about Mac OS X v10.5, 10.6: About the Parental Controls Internet content filter
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May 18, 2016 11:54 AM in response to wikeh2004by wikeh2004,Apple, FIX THIS!!!
When Parental Controls used to work, I was so glad to be using OS X and Macs. I have been a faithful Apple owner and user since 1983. I have stuck by you through thick and thin. And, there have been thin times...
Restore my faith in you. FIX THIS!!!
Thanks.
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May 18, 2016 3:17 PM in response to LukeLindblomby Király,Did you all try the delete the user and recreate it fix that I posted above? It 100% solved the parental control problem for me. Details are a page back.
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May 21, 2016 6:55 PM in response to jetsellerby pizdets17,Deleting the user doesn't work. If it worked for you, you didn't have this problem. Even a full reload and reformat doesn't work. So any other fix is useless unless it comes from the fruit gods.
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Jun 10, 2016 11:58 AM in response to jetsellerby blueswirly,More than half a year later, and the issues with Parental Controls still haven't been resolved yet. So disappointed.
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Jun 10, 2016 12:14 PM in response to blueswirlyby W4RH34D,Yup, we've learned to go without. Hopefully it comes back. Though with El Capitan's security features protecting system files I am not as worried as I would be with snow leopard etc.
I just watch the internet history and user files like a hawk.
I know it's easy to bypass gatekeeper, but atleast they can't do anything nasty with terminal.
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Jun 29, 2016 12:11 PM in response to jetsellerby esharma,I have this same exact problem. I have spent 3-4 hours working on this with apple support. They continue to tell me that parental controls work fine on El Capitan and they are confused as to why parental controls do not work on my computer.
I have sent them this thread on discussions.apple.com to read and their answer is that they have millions of users, and if parental controls were truly broken, then they would know about it.
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Jun 29, 2016 4:28 PM in response to esharmaby Dave Razorsek,Not a great argument from Apple. I'd be surprised if a majority of users knew you could create multiple accounts on one machine let alone know about parental controls. They can easily do a screen share and see it not working for themselves.
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Jun 30, 2016 8:35 PM in response to jetsellerby W4RH34D,IF you have OS X server you can set up profile manager and push simple finder, app restriction and website restriction to the computers you want to manage.
Tested it, works fine.
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Jul 4, 2016 8:36 AM in response to jetsellerby stwi,I found these rather suspicious looking errors in the system log. They appear whenever I try to make any changes to parental controls (in this case it was changing the allowed apps). This may not be a problem with parental controls per se, but rather with some missing code signing keys in the key chain.
stefan@libbys-macbook:Library $ tail -f /var/log/system.log | grep parentalcontrolsd
Jul 4 11:28:56 libbys-macbook parentalcontrolsd[924]: CreateTempKeychain [1174] -- mkstemp created path: /var/db/com.apple.parentalcontrols.keychain.9Frwdw
Jul 4 11:28:56 libbys-macbook parentalcontrolsd[924]: FCCreateTempKeychainForCodesigning [705] -- using keychain: /private/var/db/com.apple.parentalcontrols.keychain.9Frwdw
Jul 4 11:28:58 libbys-macbook parentalcontrolsd[924]: CreateIdentityWithKeychain [994] -- *** CopySigningIdentityFromKeychain returned NULL
Jul 4 11:28:58 libbys-macbook parentalcontrolsd[924]: FCCreateTempKeychainForCodesigning [708] -- *** FCCreateTempKeychainForCodesigning: CreateIdentityWithKeychain returned NULL
Jul 4 11:28:58 libbys-macbook parentalcontrolsd[924]: -[AppWhitelistHelper _processBundleIDs:forUser:kickMCX:] [286:] -- *** FCCreateTempKeychainForCodesigning returned NULL
Jul 4 11:28:58 libbys-macbook parentalcontrolsd[924]: FCCreateAppSignature [857] -- *** SecCodeSignerAddSignature returned: -67062 on pass: 1
Jul 4 11:28:58 libbys-macbook parentalcontrolsd[924]: FCCreateAppSignature [857] -- *** SecCodeSignerAddSignature returned: -67062 on pass: 2
Jul 4 11:28:59 libbys-macbook parentalcontrolsd[924]: FCCreateAppSignature [857] -- *** SecCodeSignerAddSignature returned: -67062 on pass: 1
Jul 4 11:28:59 libbys-macbook parentalcontrolsd[924]: multibyte ASN1 identifiers are not supported.
Jul 4 11:28:59 libbys-macbook parentalcontrolsd[924]: FCCreateAppSignature [857] -- *** SecCodeSignerAddSignature returned: -67062 on pass: 1
Jul 4 11:28:59 libbys-macbook parentalcontrolsd[924]: FCCreateAppSignature [857] -- *** SecCodeSignerAddSignature returned: -67062 on pass: 2
Jul 4 11:29:00 libbys-macbook parentalcontrolsd[924]: FCCreateAppSignature [857] -- *** SecCodeSignerAddSignature returned: -67062 on pass: 1
Jul 4 11:29:00 libbys-macbook parentalcontrolsd[924]: ### Attempt to send message without connection!
Jul 4 11:29:01 libbys-macbook parentalcontrolsd[924]: FCCreateAppSignature [857] -- *** SecCodeSignerAddSignature returned: -67062 on pass: 1
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Jul 18, 2016 1:57 PM in response to stwiby W4RH34D,About the OS X El Capitan v10.11.6 Update - Apple Support
Just in time to fix it before MacOS comes out. LOL
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Jul 18, 2016 2:31 PM in response to W4RH34Dby wikeh2004,Glad they finally fixed it (I hope) before I threw the MacBook out the window and replaced it with a Windoze laptop! :-)
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Jul 18, 2016 7:14 PM in response to wikeh2004by kimberly254,I was not so fortunate. I purchased 2 macbook airs, both did same. my son was going away for summer and i wanted to have p controls in effect. i began in january. literally over 100+ hours with apple support, engineering, etc. never functional. third party software ineffective as well. after all that had to do clean installs on all machines. went to apple store for help on back to mac after that. began talking about p controls and was not taken seriously. they attempted to set it up, same thing. they then got their own machine to "see for themselves"- SAME THINGS!!! I wonder if the update works.....
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Jul 18, 2016 7:15 PM in response to W4RH34Dby kimberly254,cant believe i am actually seeing this. had to send son with no p controls in place after 6 months and 3 new computers. i know you have been on this one a long time--any word on if this actually fixes it?