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Using Parental Controls with iChat

If you are using Mac OS X v10.4 or later, and have your computer set up with other, nonadministrator user accounts, you can control who the other users of the computer can chat with. Using Parental Controls you can add only the buddies you want the other user to chat with.

To add buddies to other users' parental controls:

  1. Open System Preferences and click Accounts.
  2. Select a user account and then click Parental Controls.
  3. Select the iChat checkbox and then click Configure.
  4. Click the Add (+) button and select a buddy from the list.
  5. If there are no buddies in the list, click New Person and enter the buddy's .Mac account or AIM screen name.

Only the buddies you add will be available for chats.

Parental Controls work only with AIM buddies. If you use Parental Controls, local buddies and Jabber buddies will not be available to the user you set up with Parental Controls.

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