Logging In, Logging Out, Restarting, and Shutting Down Mac OS X
As you learned earlier, you must log in to be able to use a Mac OS X–powered Mac. To log in, you simply select the name of the user account, enter the password, and press Return. You will then move to the desktop for that user account.
Under older versions of the Mac OS, when you were done working with the computer and wanted to “turn it off,” you shut it down using the Shut Down command. Under Mac OS X, you can still do this, but most of the time you will log out instead. When you log out, all the processes currently running are stopped and the user account is “closed.” To log out of the current user account, choose Apple menu, Log Out (or press Shift++Q). In the resulting confirmation ...
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