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macOS X Support: User Accounts

This course covers the management of users accounts, user folders, passwords, and keychains in the OS X El Capitan and will help prepare you for the OS X Support Essentials 10.11 exam.

Intermediate
1h 53m
(8)

Created by Herta Nava

Last Updated Jul 01, 2021

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macOS X Support: User Accounts

This course covers the management of users accounts, user folders, passwords, and keychains in the OS X El Capitan and will help prepare you for the OS X Support Essentials 10.11 exam.

Intermediate
1h 53m
(8)

Created by Herta Nava

Last Updated Jul 01, 2021

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What you'll learn

This course, macOS X Support: User Accounts, goes in depth into the management of user accounts, folders, passwords, and keychains. First, you'll see the management of user accounts in Mac with the OS X El Capitan. You'll then go over the Home folder and restoring Home folders and user accounts, as well as the main security authentication method used by OS X. Finally, you'll discover what keychains are, including the iCloud keychain service and how to manage them. By the end of this course, you will be better prepared for the second part of the OS X Support Essentials 10.11 exam.

macOS X Support: User Accounts
Intermediate
1h 53m
(8)
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Herta Nava
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Herta is an independent Consultant working in software localization, web technologies, online marketing and course authoring. She is mostly dedicated to authoring courses with Pluralsight, but she also works as a localization consultant for SDL International and is part of the Google Linguistic and Localization Team, where she is assigned to localize Google products and software.

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