Section 119. Grant Admin Capabilities to Another User


119. Grant Admin Capabilities to Another User

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

117 About Administrative Responsibilities

118 Add a New User


SEE ALSO

120 Restrict Another User's Capabilities (Parental Controls)

122 Delete a User


Your own account, created when you first started up your Mac, is an Admin account ; it has the inherent capabilities necessary to change any of the System Preferences , install software, and perform many other system-modifying actions. Every new user account you create begins life as a standard user, without any of those administrative capabilities. However, you can grant Admin status to any other users you select if you want to share that administrative authority. When you do so, the other users you empower can modify other user accounts, install software, and change pretty much anything about the system.

119. Grant Admin Capabilities to Another User


You should not grant Admin status lightly. Allow only those people you trust completely with the computer to be administrators. Granting Admin status to a user of your computer is equivalent to giving them your house or car keys and the implicit permission to do whatever they want with them.

NOTE

You must be logged in as an Admin user, or able to authenticate as one using the lock icon in the Accounts Preferences , to grant Admin capabilities to another user. Also, you cannot perform this operation on a user who is currently logged in. The user must log out first.


1.
Open the Accounts Preferences

Open the System Preferences application (under the Apple menu); click Accounts to open the Accounts Preferences pane.

2.
Select the User to Promote

From the list of users on the left, select the user you want to promote to Admin status. Then click the Password tab if it is not already shown.

3.
Grant Admin Capabilities to the User

Select the Allow user to administer this computer check box. The user is immediately promoted to Admin status, and the Limitations tab becomes disabled (because Admin users have no limitations).



MAC OS X Tiger in a Snap
Mac OS X Tiger in a Snap
ISBN: 0672327066
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2001
Pages: 212
Authors: Brian Tiemann

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