Geek Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/login-agreement-mac.jpg" alt="User Agreement on Login in Mac OS X Lion" title="login-agreement-mac" width="620" height="393" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26099" /></p> <p>Mac OS X Lion can display messages that require acknowledgement prior to the standard login screen appearing. For administrators, this allows a user agreement or acceptable use policy to be displayed before users can login, and for personal use it lets users include a customized message before logging into a Mac.</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">How to Create & Set a Login User Agreement in Mac OS X</h2> <p>For OS X 10.7 or later:</p> <ul> <li>Open TextEdit and create an RTF containing the the user agreement login message, save this file named as “PolicyBanner” and be sure the extension is .rtf or .rtfd</li> <li>From the Finder, hit Command+Shift+G to bring up the “Go To Folder” window and enter the following path:</li> <p><code>/Library/Security/</code></p> <li>Copy the previously created PolicyBanner.rtf to the /Library/Security/ folder</li> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/copy-policybanner.jpg" alt="PolicyBanner" title="copy-policybanner" width="591" height="367" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26100" /></p> <li>Authenticate the file transfer by entering the administrators password</li> </ul> <p><em>Note: /Library/ is different than the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/22/access-user-library-folder-in-os-x-lion/">user ~/Library/</a>, with the former being system-wide and the latter being user specific.</em></p> <p>To confirm the policy banner is active, log out and log back into the Mac. The user agreement will popup before the standard login screen, and must be accepted before a user can login to the Mac. <span id="more-26098"></span> <img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/login-agreement-mac.jpg" alt="User Agreement on Login in Mac OS X Lion" title="login-agreement-mac" width="620" height="393" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26099" /></p> <p>Clicking “Accept” will return the standard login screen:</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/os-x-lion-login.jpg" alt="OS X Lion login" title="os-x-lion-login" width="620" height="388" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26103" /></p> <p>To further customize the Mac login process, <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/28/login-and-lock-screen-message-in-mac-os-x-lion/">add a message to the OS X Lion login screen</a> itself or <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/12/02/change-login-screen-wallpaper-os-x-lion/">change the login wallpaper</a> to something other than the default linen.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/79On-dxfgZkWpEHB70Sb9u7ZuNI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/79On-dxfgZkWpEHB70Sb9u7ZuNI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/79On-dxfgZkWpEHB70Sb9u7ZuNI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/79On-dxfgZkWpEHB70Sb9u7ZuNI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=2OzzvuBnKls:mvwt_xeZY8A:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=2OzzvuBnKls:mvwt_xeZY8A:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=2OzzvuBnKls:mvwt_xeZY8A:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=2OzzvuBnKls:mvwt_xeZY8A:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=2OzzvuBnKls:mvwt_xeZY8A:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=2OzzvuBnKls:mvwt_xeZY8A:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=2OzzvuBnKls:mvwt_xeZY8A:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/2OzzvuBnKls" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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