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Jul 26, 2016 2:50 AM in response to moyers93by Ella Fitzgerald,Hello, you can find a solution in this article Mac OS X v10.5, 10.6: About the Parental Controls Internet content filter - Apple Support
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Jul 26, 2016 3:41 AM in response to Ella Fitzgeraldby moyers93,Thank you. I read the article but I'm not asking about Internet access levels.
Bottom line is I don't want him to have an Administrator account but still enforce Parental Controls. Administrator accounts can turn Parental Controls on or off as they desire.
I also want his regular (non-administrator) account the ability to install software without out the system prompting for administrative credentials.
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Jul 26, 2016 7:15 AM in response to moyers93by lllaass,By definition one has to have Admin privileges to install apps and Apple has not provide a means to only assign Admin privileges for installing apps but other uses
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Jul 26, 2016 10:25 AM in response to moyers93by Grant Bennet-Alder,What you will have to do for now, is to get him to come to you for Installation of new Applications.
There are a few that are happy to install for his userid only, and will install in a new:
/Users/<his_short_username>/Applications
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Jul 26, 2016 10:11 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alderby moyers93,Please explain what you mean by "There are a few that are happy to install for his userid only, and will install in a new:
/Users/<his_short_username>/Applications"...Are you saying some applications can be installed without having an Administrator account?
It's hard to believe Apple makes User account privileges so "black and white" with no option to give special rights to account like MS Windows.
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Jul 27, 2016 12:29 AM in response to moyers93by lllaass,I take it as "/Users/<his_short_username>/Applications" is where applications are listed that can be used by the Parental Controls account and that you can pre-list those applications if ou know of the applications.
The Parental Controls account does not have the privileges to change that files.
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Jul 27, 2016 2:45 AM in response to lllaassby moyers93,I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're saying. Can I give him a Standard User account that can install/use applications or not?
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Jul 27, 2016 9:36 PM in response to moyers93by dialabrain,★HelpfulStandard: Standard users are set up by an administrator. A standard user can install apps and change settings for his or her own use. Standard users can’t add other users or change other users’ settings.
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Jul 27, 2016 9:38 PM in response to moyers93by Grant Bennet-Alder,★HelpfulMy kids never had an admin account. Yet when I looked at their computers, they had been able to store a few games in their own accounts, without admin access. These were specific to their ID, NOT "Installed for all Users on the machine".
I believe this was because these games did not require access to the System-level /Accounts directory, which is locked.
Most commercial packages (a big word-processor, for example) insist on Admin access, and insist on being Installed in the /Applications folder. Smaller scale stuff like games sometimes does not.
So I suggest you tell your kids, " if you cannot Install it yourself, you will need to ask me for help." [and be sure to either not enter the password in front of them, or explain that Trust is important, and they should NOT memorize this password because there will be consequences of its unauthorized use. (I trained my kids to turn away and not look when I entered the Admin password, and they understood and never tried to steal it.)]