Question :
I have installed the Minecraft game (Mac version) for my children. But, on my Mac, the account of my children is an account with ‘parental guidance’ restrictions, not a full administrator account. Now every time there is an update of Minecraft, I have to log in to the (main) administrator account, turn administrator rights for the children’s account back on, log in on the (now administrator) children’s account run and update Minecraft there, then log out of that account, log back in as the main administrator, turn ‘parental guidance’ back on for the children’s account, reset all restrictions manually (they can’t be save or restored from the previous time…), then log out of the main administrator account again and log in using the (now restricted) children’s account and run Minecraft again. If I don’t do it like that, I get all kinds of error messages, and I can’t update. This is an extremely annoying procedure…
…isn’t there any way to do these updates more conveniently ?
Answer :
To allow Minecraft updates to managed user accounts in OSX, do the following :
(Note : this will also fix the “ssl peer shut down incorrectly”-error)
1- go to System Preferences –> Accounts
2- click on the padlock icon (bottom left) and type the Administrator name & password
3- then select the managed account and click “Open Parental Controls”
4- then, (when “Limit Applications” is checked) allow these apps for the managed user account :
in “Other Apps” :
– Applet Launcher
– Java VisualVM
– MinecraftLauncher
and in “Utilities” :
– Java Preferences
5- then, click on the “Logs…”-button
in the window that opens, select “Websites Blocked” and click on “Amazonaws”, than for each “Unknown” listed under “Amazonaws”, click the “Allow”-button that appears when “Unknown” is selected
6- then click “Done” to exit back to the “Parental Controls”-window,
7- click on the “Web”-tab there, “Try to limit…” will be selected, leave that as is, and click on the “Customize”-button
8- then, at “Always allow these websites:” click on the plussign-button and add this URL :
9- then click “OK” to exit and quit System Preferences
10- then startup Minecraft (the Minecraft Launcher app), wait for the update to download and login using your eMail-address as your login-name (using your Minecraft nickname seems not to work…)
11- if the first login attempt doesn’t succeed, try again
…and even if the second and third login attempts do not succeed either, try again
…finally, the login (using the same eMail-address and password) will succeed…
that’s it !
enjoy !
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update :
added these steps, as this appeared to be needed for the upgrade to Minecraft 1.7.9 on a Parental Guidance restricted OSX user account :
6- then click “Done” to exit back to the “Parental Controls”-window,
7- click on the “Web”-tab there, “Try to limit…” will be selected, leave that as is, and click on the “Customize”-button
8- then, at “Always allow these websites:” click on the plussign-button and add this URL :
https://libraries.minecraft.net
9- then click “OK” to exit and quit System Preferences
this worked perfectly
N.B. If “limit applications” is not ticked you can ignore that step entirely
Thanks!
@bobama :
thanks for the feedback
enjoy 😉
I am running MacOS 10.12.4 and this does not work for me. Under Limit applications none of the programs mentioned above even appear. No minecraft launcher, no applet launcer, no java….
would love some help!
@Tom :
Thanks for the Feedback !
Sorry to hear this doesn’t work for you yet.
Did you already run Minecraft from the Administrator’s account ?
I have no macOS 10.12 Mac with a Restricted User Account available for testing at the moment, so I can’t reproduce your problem,
but as far as I can recall from other versions of OSX, you need to do the first run of Minecraft on an administrator account to get all supporting (hidden) utilities properly installed
only after they’ve been installed properly, you can start trying to access them from restricted user accounts also
hope this helps – good luck 😉