Macbook Pro Multiple user accounts

[shorty_jk]

Hi,

Wanting to know how to set up multiple user accounts on my mac to keep all my cookies separate, i know it can be done on windows, what about the mac?
Also will this keep the internet passwords separate?

Thanks alot
JT

[ateep22]

i am wondering the same thing..i am also on a mac...

[baloch]

Yes. Just go into System Preferences, then Accounts. You can setup multiple user accounts from there.

Quick search points me to this.

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-create-a-user-account-on-mac-os-x-snow-leop.html

[ateep22]

does this also separate cookies and flash like it does for window user accounts?

[shorty_jk]

thats great thanks baloch, do you know if this will keep cookies totally seperate from each other?

[brownsauce215]

I'm running a mac and have a few accounts. Yes for each created username/account on your mac, the cookies and all that individual jazz is kept separate. Proof? Here:

Upon logging into ebay, I tell it to remember my password/username. Do my diddly thing on ebay, log off to the next awesome account. Do the same. Tomorrow, I log back onto the same accounts, all specific information for that account is still saved there. This is same for the other stealth accounts I have.

Hope that helps !

[shorty_jk]

great thanks for the help!

[GofortheGold]

Like brownsauce215 said, the principle of stealth is pretty much the same for mac. You can even use windows VPS's with macs, as long as you download remote desktop connection from the window's website.

[Packattack12]

^^^ using a windows VPS on a Mac works great!!!

[Furious George]

I think it's a bad idea to separate cookies through different user accounts. IMO, there is too much that could go wrong there, mac or pc. I'm a mac, I just delete cookies and LSO before I login to each account.

[DoubleA]

System Preferences - Users - Click the + button and add the user.

[SimpleX]

Originally Posted by Furious George

I think it's a bad idea to separate cookies through different user accounts. IMO, there is too much that could go wrong there, mac or pc. I'm a mac, I just delete cookies and LSO before I login to each account.

Do expand....

[Furious George]

Originally Posted by SimpleX

Do expand....

It just seems silly to not have 100% control over whatever ebay is using to track you. Letting the machine separate the cookies just leaves you open to something going wrong. Deleting them before each login and checking to see if they're deleted guarantees they're not linking you.

[rsot]

Originally Posted by baloch

Yes. Just go into System Preferences, then Accounts. You can setup multiple user accounts from there.

Quick search points me to this.

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-create-a-user-account-on-mac-os-x-snow-leop.html

Thanks baloch - thinking of snagging a Mac and jumping on another bandwagon

[NoneOther]

Originally Posted by Furious George

It just seems silly to not have 100% control over whatever ebay is using to track you. Letting the machine separate the cookies just leaves you open to something going wrong. Deleting them before each login and checking to see if they're deleted guarantees they're not linking you.

Absolute rubbish.

Firstly separate user accounts on a Mac are like Fort Knox, no way is anything getting in or out without your say so.

Secondly cookies are your best friends as far as e/b and p/p are concerned, they expect to see them and get very twitchy if there are none around every time you log in to your accounts.

Check out the posts where users are getting doc requests because e/b or p/p do not recognise the computer they are logging in from i.e. there are no cookies present.

ADVICE FOR ALL NEWBIES

Set up your user accounts as per stealth methods and LEAVE cookies well alone if you want a stress free life