Creating user accounts

    To create and edit user accounts on your computer, you must be the Owner or have Normal user privileges.

    To create a new user account:
    1 Open the Multiple Users control panel and click New User.
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    2 Enter the user name and password (a password is optional but strongly recommended).
    3 Select the kind of user privileges: Panels, Limited, or Normal.
    4 Click Show Setup Details, then click the User Info tab.
    5 Select a picture to appear next to this user's name in the Login window.
    Tip: You can drag a small picture from your Web browser to the Multiple Users control panel picture area to customize the Login window pictures.
    6 Set other options.
    • User can change password: Allows the user to change the password you set and to set or change their voiceprint password.
    • Can log in: Makes this account available.
    • Can manage user accounts: Makes this user an Account Manager who can create, delete, and modify other accounts (except for the Owner's). You can designate as many Account Managers as you like among Normal users.
    7 For a Panels or Limited user, click the Applications tab to approve applications that this user can use.
    8 For a Panels or Limited user, click the Privileges tab to set other access privileges for the user.
    9 Close the window to save your changes and click Multiple User Accounts On.

    To create a user with the same settings as an account you've already created:
    • Select a user whose settings you want to duplicate and click Duplicate once for each new account you want to create.
    Tip: You can also apply some settings globally for all users so that you don't have to duplicate them in each account.

    To edit a user account:
    • Select the name, click Open, and make the changes you want.

    To create a Guest account:
    • Click Options, click the Other tab, then select the "Allow a Guest User Account" checkbox.

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