My guess is that that weird domain name is one of the many addresses that Google uses to make the connection to their secure servers. I also noticed the 1E100 in the list of sites blocked. So far online email is not blocked, and everyone is happy, except for the kids, who can’t see Adult content on the web anymore=) *.*, this is done because google redirects tend to add suffixes to the address of the secure site. com at the end of the url is replaced by a. There it is suggested that one has to allow explicitly some sites under ‘System Preferences > Parental Controls > “ AccountWithRestrictions” > Content > Try to limit access to adult websites automatically > Customize’. Solving the Gmail, Yahoo mail and Hotmail Issue with the Mac OS X Parental ControlsĪfter much reading and frustration, I came accross this link. the ones under a secure connection (addresses that start with So none of the conventional web based emails would work under this setup. Theoretically this should do the job… But you actually thought the story would have a happy ending? Under this configuration, whenever I tried to check my gmail, yahoo or hotmail I would get a message from the browser saying: “Safari can’t find the server. Safari can’t open the page “ can’t find the server The Snow Leopard IssueĪpparently when you try to do the “Try to limit access to adult websites automatically” option, Parental Controls not only blocks websites with inappropiate content, but it also blocks sites that it cannot read, i.e. To restrict access to websites with adult content go to: ‘System Preferences > Parental Controls > “ NameOfTheAccountWithRestrictions” > Content’ and click on “Try to limit access to adult websites automatically”.If new applications are installed or run, the user will be prompted to introduce a login with administrator privileges and you can set wether you would like it to run once, or forever for the user with restrictions. To restrict the applications to only the ones approved by the administrator do: ‘System Preferences > Parental Controls > “ NameOfTheAccountWithRestrictions” > System’ and check on “Selected Applications” the ones that you would like to allow.Then Select the account that automatically logs onto the computer (in our case “NameOfTheAccountWithRestrictions”).Go to System Preferences>Parental Controls.For this example we would select the login “ NameOfTheAccountWithRestrictions“ Parental Control Settings: Then select the account created with parental controls from the drop box next to “Automatic Login”. ‘System Preferences>Accounts>Login Options>Automatic Login’ Eliminate the startup login window bay making the newly created account the one that logs onto the computer automatically by default.We will call the login of this account “ NameOfTheAccountWithRestrictions“. A detailed procedure for doing this can be found here. Create a new account without administrative privileges and activate parental controls.Simplify usage for the senior user (system logs in automatically after turning on the computer.
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