How to create a user on Mac

The creation of users on the Mac offers many advantages when it comes to managing the use of the computer, as well as providing you with the possibility of maintaining privacy among the different people who use the computer. Also, you can manage it so that each one has a different permission level. So you can take advantage of these and other potentialities in a simple way, in this article of .com we explain step by step how to create a user on Mac .

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First, open 'System Preferences' and, there, click on ' Users and Groups '.

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A window will open in which you will see all the users registered in the system. To create a new user on Mac, you must click on the '+' sign that you will find in the lower left.

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But before doing so, you have to click on the padlock that appears a little below. Then, the system will ask you in a pop-up window to enter the password of the team administrator.

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Once the administrator's permissions have been granted, you can now click on the '+' symbol to create the user . Then, the system will ask for the following data:

New account: Here you will choose if you want to create an administrator user, standard, with parental controls, only to share or a group.

Full name: The full name of the user.

Account name: An account name will be generated depending on how the full name is. For example, uppercase letters will be lower case. This account name is used as the identifier of the user's home folder and can also be used as the login name.

Password: The key to login.

Verify: You write the key again.

Indication of the password: This data is optional . It is a phrase that can help you if you forget your password.

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Now, you have your new Mac user created. If you click on the image, you can change it. You also have the option to grant the user permission to manage the computer and create an Apple ID, as well as define parental controls.