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If you enable parental controls on a Mac OS X account, even if you don't place any restrictions, iChat disables the creation of and connection to Jabber (& Google Talk) accounts. It appears that at least part of the problem is due to the fact that Jabber connections need to be encrypted, and there are [http://tech.kateva.org/2010/04/os-x-parental-controls-https-bug.html issues with HTTPS connections] on controlled accounts. Most likely, Apple didn't want to deal with customer complaints about Jabber accounts not working correctly, so they just decided to disable them outright.
Anyway, if you don't care about having Parental Controls on the iChat app and don't want to entirely disable Parental Controls on the account, do the following:
*Log into an admin account
*Open Terminal in Applications/Utilities
*Run the following command:
sudo dscl . -mcxset /users/username com.apple.iChatAgent Setting.parentalControls always -bool false
:Be sure to replace "username" with the short name of the user for whom you want to make the change. To find out the short name of a user, it is the same as the name of their home directory inside the <tt>/Users</tt> folder.
Log out and log back in the controlled user. Now try adding and connecting to a Jabber account. Violà!
==External links==
*[http://tech.kateva.org/2010/04/os-x-parental-controls-https-bug.html OS X Parental Controls: The https bug and our family Google Apps services] — from which I saw the tip to use dscl
*[http://tech.kateva.org/2009/05/cant-select-jabber-or-google-talk-for.html Can't select Jabber or Google Talk for iChat? Here's one reason.] — from which I saw the preference path to change
Anyway, if you don't care about having Parental Controls on the iChat app and don't want to entirely disable Parental Controls on the account, do the following:
*Log into an admin account
*Open Terminal in Applications/Utilities
*Run the following command:
sudo dscl . -mcxset /users/username com.apple.iChatAgent Setting.parentalControls always -bool false
:Be sure to replace "username" with the short name of the user for whom you want to make the change. To find out the short name of a user, it is the same as the name of their home directory inside the <tt>/Users</tt> folder.
Log out and log back in the controlled user. Now try adding and connecting to a Jabber account. Violà!
==External links==
*[http://tech.kateva.org/2010/04/os-x-parental-controls-https-bug.html OS X Parental Controls: The https bug and our family Google Apps services] — from which I saw the tip to use dscl
*[http://tech.kateva.org/2009/05/cant-select-jabber-or-google-talk-for.html Can't select Jabber or Google Talk for iChat? Here's one reason.] — from which I saw the preference path to change