Apple Mac help required please

[Box of Frogs]

How can I lock my iMac/MacBook Pro so that a password is needed to access anything?

I have disabled the Guest account but when I switch on it still gives the option to use a guest login which gives internet access.

I want to stop my son using my stuff - he has got his own PC but insists on using mine when I am not there!

 

[JetsetJimbo]

Not sure which version of OS X you're using, but I'm guessing it's Lion, in which case you should find the answers here:
Disable the Guest User Account at Mac OS X 10.7.2 Lion Login Screen

 

[Sergei Gotsmanov]

System Preferences => Users & Groups - allows you to set up a password to log-on.

Under Security & Privacy you can set the password to be required after a set period of inactivity.

Am guessing there is something you might be able to do under Parental Controls as well but have never played around with it.

 

[Sergei Gotsmanov]

Think I may have misunderstood.

If the guest account appears even when disabled maybe just delete it altogether.

 

[Kazenga <3]

That's not very nice really

 

[fozzie's paper boy]

Worth looking at setting up individual user accounts each with their own password - we do this for each child and can set specific parental controls and time limits for each. All done through System Preferences>System>Users & Groups.

 

[Box of Frogs]

Worth looking at setting up individual user accounts each with their own password - we do this for each child and can set specific parental controls and time limits for each. All done through System Preferences>System>Users & Groups.

Want him to use his own PC - not mine!

 

[Box of Frogs]

Cheers Jimbo

 

[itszamora]

The problem with disabling the guest account is that if your Mac is ever nicked/lost, it's the guest account that is used to locate it remotely.