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Jul 21, 2010

I really like the guest account feature that Leopard (and I'm assuming Snow Leopard) provides.I just got my first Macbook Pro... about a year old running Leopard... part of a client deal (you Mac people just got another application developer interested ).

Anyway.. I'm wondering... I"m getting rid of a few of my other computers on craigslist in the coming weeks and my girlfriend always wants to check her facebook. I'd prefer not to have her accidentally close something important so I setup & configured the guest account. I installed the server admin tools to fully customize the dock/etc.

Two questions however:

1: Thus far the guest account cannot access HTTPS (secure sites) websites. Not in Safari or Google Chrome. Is this an option somewhere? Something I'm missing? I've tried googling for about 30 minutes and have come up blank.

2: Without overwriting the default profile setup (incase I ever want to create new profiles)... is there a way to set a few default things for the Guest user? FOr instance... I know it wipes everything on close... I want it to remember that Google Chrome & Safari have run before (annoying that it asks "do you want this to be the default browser?.. or running the initial safari video).

Feel free to get as technical as you want... as I said I'm a seasoned linux & windows developer getting into the Mac world .

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PING www.westpac.com.au (203.24.6.90): 56 data bytes
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Vr HL TOS Len ID Flg off TTL Pro cks Src Dst
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--- www.telstra.com.au ping statistics ---
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Repair permissions and diks
Reinstall the system
Create a test user and try from there
Try from root user
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Mar 20 17:48:40 Mini ReportCrash182: Formulating crash report for process securityd23
Mar 20 17:48:40 Mini com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.SecurityServer23): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 179 PPID 1 SecurityAgent
Mar 20 17:48:40 Mini com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.SecurityServer23): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 178 PPID 1 authorizationhos
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Mar 20 17:49:41 Mini /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit171: SessionGetInfo(0xffffffff) -> Mach 268435459
Mar 20 17:49:41 Mini /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit171: CSBackToMyMac::_SCSecKeychainCopySystemKeychain returned NULL
Mar 20 17:49:49 Mini /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/Resources/quicklookd.app/Contents/MacOS/quicklookd190: SessionGetInfo(0xffffffff) -> Mach 1102
Mar 20 17:49:49 Mini /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/Resources/quicklookd.app/Contents/MacOS/quicklookd190: GetOurLSSessionIDInit(), returned error 0xe2, securitySessionID=0x0 attrs=0 uid=502 euid=502. cf Radar 5123589.
Mar 20 17:49:49 Mini /System/Library/CoreServices/coreservicesd62: Client must provide a valid sessionID but passed 0, 0x0/0x0 version=10500000 uid=502 euid=502. cf Radar 5123589.
Mar 20 17:49:49 Mini /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/Resources/quicklookd.app/Contents/MacOS/quicklookd190: LaunchServices/5123589: coreservicesd is running an unsupported version, 0 ( we are 10500000 ), so we cannot talk to it.
Mar 20 17:49:49 Mini /System/Library/CoreServices/coreservicesd62: Client must provide a valid sessionID but passed 0, 0x0/0x0 version=10500000 uid=502 euid=502. cf Radar 5123589.
Mar 20 17:49:49 Mini /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/Resources/quicklookd.app/Contents/MacOS/quicklookd190: LaunchServices/5123589: coreservicesd is running an unsupported version, 0 ( we are 10500000 ), so we cannot talk to it.
Mar 20 17:49:53 Mini /System/Library/CoreServices/ReportCrash191: SessionGetInfo(0xffffffff) -> Mach 1102
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Mar 20 17:49:53 Mini /System/Library/CoreServices/coreservicesd62: Client must provide a valid sessionID but passed 0, 0x0/0x0 version=10500000 uid=502 euid=502. cf Radar 5123589.
Mar 20 17:49:53 Mini /System/Library/CoreServices/ReportCrash191: LaunchServices/5123589: coreservicesd is running an unsupported version, 0 ( we are 10500000 ), so we cannot talk to it.
Mar 20 17:49:53 Mini /System/Library/CoreServices/ReportCrash194: SessionGetInfo(0xffffffff) -> Mach 1102
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Mar 20 17:49:53 Mini com.apple.launchd108: catch_mach_exception_raise_state_identity(): thread: 0xa8cf task: 0x8eaf type: 0xa code: 0x2c044 codeCnt: 0x2 flavor: 0x2c054 old_state: 0x2c05c old_stateCnt: 0x2c new_state: 0x2b02c new_stateCnt: 0x2b028
Mar 20 17:49:53 Mini com.apple.launchd108 (com.apple.ReportCrash.SafetyNet194): Exited abnormally: Abort trap
Mar 20 17:49:54 Mini ReportCrash195: Formulating crash report for process ReportCrash191
Mar 20 17:49:54 Mini ReportCrash195: Saved crashreport to /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/ReportCrash_2009-03-20-174953_Mini.crash using uid: 0 gid: 0, euid: 0 egid: 0
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Mar 20 17:49:56 Mini ReportCrash195: Saved crashreport to /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/quicklookd_2009-03-20-174954_Mini.crash using uid: 0 gid: 0, euid: 0 egid: 0
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