Setting up your computer for multiple users

    With the Multiple Users feature of the Mac OS, you can create separate user accounts for each person who uses your computer. Each user has his or her own environment to work in. You (the computer's Owner, plus anyone to whom you grant Account Manager privileges) control which applications and locations each person can access. You can create up to 40 user accounts and one Guest account.

    IMPORTANT: If your hard disk has partitions, user accounts are available only on the partition on which they were created. Any Normal or Limited user can access the other partitions.

    For each user account on the computer, you can allow access to the Shared folder. Documents that are saved in the Shared folder will be available to all the people who use the computer and who have access to the Shared folder (Normal users always have access to the Shared folder). For Normal users, documents saved on the desktop will not be visible to anyone else using the computer (except the Owner). For Panels and Limited users, documents saved in their Documents folders will not be visible to others using the computer (except the Owner).

    If you are the only person who uses your computer, you can prevent other people from accessing it by turning on Multiple Users.

    To turn Multiple Users on or off:
    1 Open the Multiple Users control panel.
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    2 Click On or Off.

    If you can't turn Multiple Users on and off:
    Only the Owner can turn Multiple Users on and off. Log out and log back in as the Owner.

    If you can't select anything in the Multiple Users control panel:
    Make sure you have entered an owner name and password in the File Sharing control panel.

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