Change the Safari home page for the OSX Guest account

Posted by John Lemberger on Super User See other posts from Super User or by John Lemberger
Published on 2009-11-09T21:26:38Z Indexed on 2012/10/14 3:40 UTC
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I'd like to setup the guest account with easy access to a particular web site, but cannot figure out how to change the default.

In 10.5.8 the parental controls can be used to control the list of bookmarks, but I haven't seen any reference to the home page. And when logged in as Guest, the home page settings are read-only, even if you enter an administrator password.

How can the Safari home page be changed (and be made persistent) for the OSX Guest account?

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