You can manage settings that affect all users of your computer using the Multiple Users control panel.
To manage global user settings:
- Click the Options button.
Login settings
- Welcome Message: You can set up a welcome message to appear each time a user logs in.
- Log-in Settings:
- You can allow or prevent users from using an alternative to a typed password, such as a voiceprint password.
- You can have users speak their names (if Speakable Items software is installed and enabled in the Speech control panel of your computer) instead of typing or selecting their names. Note: If the voice recognition software is not installed, you can install it by using the Mac OS Installer.
- You can set login timeout options, specifying whether the user should be logged out or the screen locked.
CD/DVD-ROM Access settings
You can allow users access to only certain CD and DVD-ROM discs and only to specific content in them.
- The "List for restricted users" displays the titles of CD/DVD-ROMs that can be accessed by Limited or Panels users. You can add or remove discs to this list.
- The "Restrict content to" list displays the main contents (root directory level) of the CD/DVD-ROM selected in the "List for restricted users."
Note: If you restrict user access to only certain content in the discs, while allowing user access to any disc (as selected in the Privileges tab of the user window) the users will still have access only to specific content in all the discs.
Other settings
- You can allow or prevent guest access to your system. The privileges you set up for the guest account apply to all who log in as guest.
- You can be notified (through an alert message) when a new application is installed and allow or prevent users from accessing it.
- You can have users choose their names from a list or enter their names when they log in.
- You can specify which kinds of user accounts can log in to your computer:
- Click "Multiple User Accounts (local)" if accounts are located on your computer.
- To allow access only to accounts created in Macintosh Manager, Click "Macintosh Manager Accounts (on network)."
Note: The "Macintosh Manager Accounts (on network)" option is available only if the Macintosh Manager software is available in the language you're using on your computer.
Troubleshooting
If you've turned on the idle timeout option but users aren't logged out (or their screens locked):
Make sure the user has a password. If a user does not have a password, he or she will not be logged out or the screen locked after an idle timeout. To avoid security risks, it is recommended that all users have passwords.