Mac OS X 10.6: Creating a guest user account
If you want others to be able to temporarily use your computer, but you don’t want to create an account for each user, you can create a guest account.
A guest user can log in to the computer without entering a password. Guest users can’t make changes to other user accounts or change setting on the computer, and they can’t log in remotely.
You can use parental controls to manage a guest account. For example, you can limit the applications a guest user has access to, or filter Internet content.
Important:Files created by guest users are deleted when the user logs out. A temporary home folder is created for the guest’s files but this folder and its contents are deleted when the user logs out.
To create a guest account:
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Choose Apple Menu > System Preferences and click Accounts.
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Click the lock icon to unlock it and then type an administrator name and password.
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Select Guest Account in the list of accounts.
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Select the “Allow guests to log into this computer” checkbox.
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To set further limits on what a guest user can access on the computer, select the Enable Parental Controls checkbox. For more information about parental controls, see the following topic:
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To let guest users access shared folders on this computer from another computer, select the “Allow guests to connect to shared folders” checkbox.