Why Use Individual Accounts?
When each person who uses your Mac has their own user account, they can customize their account
in any way they like without affecting any of the other accounts on the system. For example, moms
and dads can assign administrative rights to their user accounts, giving them (almost) unfettered
access to the entire computer, while limiting the kids??™ accounts to be able to use only select
applications and perform only certain tasks. You can even set up a user account that is used only for
troubleshooting purposes (more on that in Chapter 20). The account types are described next.
Administrator Accounts
When you first logged onto your Mac, you created a user account for yourself. This account
was automatically given administrative rights, which allows the owner of that account to make
system-wide changes and to install software. Administrator, or admin, accounts can also add new
accounts or remove current ones.
Admin accounts are able to do almost anything they want, but there are some limitations.
Admin accounts can only access the Public and Sites folders of the other user accounts; all other
user folders are off limits, retaining the privacy of the individual users.
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