Mac OS X 10.5 Help
Creating a guest user account
If you want others to be able to temporarily use your computer and you don’t want to create a user account for each user, you can create a guest account.
When a guest account has been created a guest may log in to the computer without a password. When the log in window is appears the user can just click Guest Account, if names are listed, or type “guest” for the name.
You can use parental controls to manage a guest account, for example you can limit the applications a guest user has access to or filter Internet content.
A guest user cannot change other accounts or alter the settings on the computer. The guest account cannot be used to log in remotely.
Important: Files created while using a guest account are deleted when the user logs out. A temporary home folder is created for the guest’s files. When the they log out, the home folder and it’s contents are deleted.
To create a guest account:
If some settings are dimmed, click the lock icon and type an administrator name and password.
Select Guest Account in the list of accounts.
Select the “Allow guests to log into this computer” checkbox.
If you want to provide further limits on what a guest user can access on the computer, select the Enable Parental Controls checkbox. For more information on parental controls, see:
To allow remote access of shared folders on your computer by guest users, select the “Allow guests to connect to shared folders” checkbox. For more information on sharing files over the Internet, see: