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Allow non-Admin users to modify system preferences
Authored by: jail on Aug 04, '03 07:18:30PM

giving everyone an admin account means everyone can do *anything* on the mac. this means that if you change privileges on a pref pane, or move the pref pane into ~/Library/PreferencePanes, the user can just change the privileges back, or go into the admin's user folder and copy the pref pane out. anyone with admin access also has root access, all they need to do is type in their password.

perhaps unix has a way of changing the date without privs, i don't know.
you could however ask some hacker to write an app for changing the date. the app would have admin privileges, but not the user. perhaps the app could be a deamon that' in Startup Items, and always running in the background, with admin privs, it would then be easy to provide a system preferences GUI that just asks the deamon to change the date, without needing privs itself.



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Allow non-Admin users to modify system preferences
Authored by: sgrey on Aug 04, '03 11:40:11PM

jail, read the original post again. the guy wants non-admin users to be able to change the date. he doesn't want all users to be admins; just the opposite. the user won't be logged in as admin, so he/she can't change the privs on the Prefs Panels once they're changed by root.



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