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Authored by: lugal on Mar 28, '02 08:59:01PM

Coincidentally, I was monkeying around today trying to set up a machine for guest access, and came up with a similar solution to a similar problem. The problem that I was having was trying to disallow the guest account from changing its own password, and the solution was to simply chmod the UserPrefs.prefPane bundle to 750. This stopped the "Users" pane from showing up in the system prefs when logged in under the guest account, but still allowed normal access to that pane when logged in as a regular user. This will probably be very handy in the school where I work.



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Authored by: Living Memory on Mar 29, '02 05:28:25PM

As the Editor's caution noted this is extremely dangerous if you are not entirely certain of what you are doing. Changing the permissions on the root disk can even cause login to fail and render you totally screwed.
Even a seemingly harmless action such as changing the permissions of the Utilities folder in the Applications folder can cause some applications to fail to be able to authenticate the user.



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