{"id":46182,"date":"2019-08-28T03:01:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T17:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=46182"},"modified":"2019-08-30T20:39:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T10:39:27","slug":"guest-account-on-mac-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/guest-account-on-mac-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Account on Mac Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/TheThreeDogs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Guest Account on Mac Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/TheThreeDogs.jpg\" title=\"Guest Account on Mac Primer Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\"   \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guest Account on Mac Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;re not that much into Guest Accounts on macOS (or Mac OS X) nor Windows.  But a sharing job for us yesterday has got me questioning my biases here.  To me, a good Guest Account (on macOS or Windows) should &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>be a doddle to access &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>once logged into the Guest Account, the functionality possibilities should be reduced to a safe minimum regarding security concerns &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>there should be a range of ways to share any data created in the Guest Account, bearing in mind the home folders are cleared when logging out of a macOS Guest Account<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; and on that last point, this sharing job &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>create a video of how three dogs go, getting on with each other, here, when left alone, one my daughter&#8217;s and the other two dogs live here &#8230; and my daughter handled it while we were out at a meeting &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>choosing this MacBook Pro as the best means by which to share a half hour video via Photo Booth &#8230; but &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>was restricted, access wise, to using the MacBook Pro&#8217;s Guest Account &#8230; which all worked, and my daughter on her return, could view that created Photo Booth video, in Photo Booth, and then, for us &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>we needed to be able to share this additionally to the Non-Guest MacBook Pro account &#8230; where we realized we could use&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Photo Booth Export could create the half hour video onto a removeable USB Stick &#8230; then &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>log out of Guest Account (when home folder is cleared) &#8230; then &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>log into Non-Guest Account &#8230; and open &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>QuickTime Player could successfully play the video off the same USB Stick, as above, for our perusal, as well<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; illustrated how use of the Guest Account &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>did not compromise security, by having to pass across any passwords to accounts &#8230; as well as being &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>functional enough, to create the video via Photo Booth &#8230; doh! &#8230; and &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>shareable enough to be able to share the same video data, in a collaborative way, between parties<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; and what more can we ask of a Guest Account, especially as <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/TheThreeDogs.jpg\" title=\"Click picture\">you can also access webmail type emails from a web browser<\/a>, there, as well?<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d46182' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d46182\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/operating-system\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d46182' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re not that much into Guest Accounts on macOS (or Mac OS X) nor Windows. But a sharing job for us yesterday has got me questioning my biases here. To me, a good Guest Account (on macOS or Windows) should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/guest-account-on-mac-primer-tutorial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,29,37],"tags":[1604,407,723,725,734,2178,885,924,1137,1319,1347,1369],"class_list":["post-46182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elearning","category-operating-system","category-tutorials","tag-collaboration","tag-export","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x","tag-macbook-pro","tag-macos","tag-operating-system-2","tag-photo-booth","tag-sharing","tag-tutorial","tag-usb","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46182"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46239,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46182\/revisions\/46239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}