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10.4: How to secure screen savers across users
Authored by: gneagle on Jun 02, '06 09:30:03AM
If you want to secure the ScreenEffects prefs pane, but still allow access to the Desktop prefs, you can do this:

sudo chown root:admin /System/Library/PreferencePanes/DesktopScreenEffectsPref.prefPane
sudo chmod 750 /System/Library/PreferencePanes/DesktopScreenEffectsPref.prefPane

This prevents non-admin users from accessing either Desktop or ScreenEffects prefs. (and visually removes it from the System Preferences app for non-admins) Now to restore access to Desktop prefs (all on one line):

sudo cp -R /System/Library/PreferencePanes/DesktopScreenEffectsPref.prefPane/Contents/Resources/DesktopPictures.prefPane /Library/PreferencePanes

This copies the Desktop prefs pane to /Library/Preferences. It will now show up in System Preferences under the "Other" category.

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