Comments on: Snow Leopard Parental Controls

By: Birdie

Birdie — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:00:05 +0000

i am having the same problem – i've spend almost two hours all together trying different configurations – this is very frustrating! if anyone has figured it out i'd love to know how.

By: Desperant Person

Desperant Person — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 06:22:34 +0000

I am not sure on how and my mac has horrible parental control i try to hide profanity and many other things i NEED HELP

By: michael madison

michael madison — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:20:50 +0000

yes, this is far too complicated and incomplete.
and it is not rocket science – Norton did this really well years ago!

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 04:27:54 +0000

Having endless problems trying to get parental controls to allow https connections (specifically gmail and Facebook). I can't even get them through by allowing all connections and just keeping the logs on. Reset Safari, logged out and back in, restarted. Nothing.

I am no newcomer to comps, and even I can't get it to work. ONly thing that works is disabling controls completely.

Gotta do better than this Apple.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:39:02 +0000

I had this issue on a clients computer and found adding gmail by it's ip address to the allowed website list works fine.

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:56:36 +0000

I've only just created separate accounts for my young boys, and to be honest, I think the Parental Controls are a *COMPLETE and UTTER* waste of time!! I've removed the Managed Users Preferences, reset PRAM. I'm also comfortable using ssh to remotely log them off–but shouldn't have to. I had the misguided idea that perhaps Parental Controls may assist me in managing their computer usage. Sadly, I was thoroughly mistaken!

Maybe it'll be working in Lion. Not likely though, if the past is anything to go by.

My disappointment with the dysfunctional time limits in particular is that I'm not I can trust any of the other aspects of the Parental Controls features. That is a problem for Apple. Regaining trust is not an easy job.

By: eray

eray — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:36:27 +0000

why is everything with this OS such a pain… "its simple just go to system preferences and select parental controls" well that would be great if the icon existed but it doesnt and the help documenation is just as lame as Windows… the apple/mac thing seems just as flawed as windows.. just a different cult

By: Robert Morrissey

Robert Morrissey — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:11:06 +0000

Mac OS X v10.5, 10.6: About the Parental Controls Internet content filter https note: For websites that use SSL encryption (the URL will usually begin with https), the Internet content filter is unable to examine the encrypted content of the page. For this reason, encrypted websites must be explicitly allowed using the Always Allow list. Encrypted websites that are not on the Always Allow list will be blocked by the automatic Internet content filter. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2900

By: Robert Morrissey

Robert Morrissey — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:08:50 +0000

Persons have addressed this issue, I understand, through this course of action. I quote, "So, I did a little more exploring on the Mac and found another solution. Simply using the Mail program (I just entered in the Google gmail address and password) allows one to bypass the parental controls even when accessing the https site. I hope this helps others."

By: Johnathon

Johnathon — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:51:58 +0000

How go I Delete the internet logs of visited and blocked sites on the parental controls