On Wednesday, August 31, 2005, at 10:53AM, Tom Johnson <email@hidden> wrote:
> This is in the firmware of the DVD drive, it is not an OS
>setting and can not be made part of your image. You pretty much have
>to wander to each Mac, slide a DVD of the region you want into drive,
>and set the region. You either need to be logged in as an admin, or
>provide and admin account login + password when asked since only
>Admin accounts have permissions to set the drive region. In my
>searching I have not found a command line utility to set the drive
>region either via a script or remotely via ssh. Makes me feel more
>confident of that when someone like Josh doesn't mention one either :-).
> On Josh's comment about /etc/authorization, just be aware of the
>implications of such a change in your environment. In my environment
>that would be a bad choice - academic computer labs at a 39,000
>student University that are open 18 hours a day. You only get 5
>changes of the DVD Region and then you are stuck at what ever the
>last region set was baring some serious firmware hacking. In my
>world there is the risk that machines, especially over their 3-4 year
>usage span in our labs, could end up being stuck on various different
>regions since there are DVD's of several different regions wandering
>around campus. In your environment, that may not be such a problem -
>if I ran offices rather than labs I would be much more likely to do
>that.
I haven't found a way to bring up the region change box though without putting in an out of region disk. You don't have to make it a regular user level access thing, but you could give a lab admin group access to it.
josh
www.afp548.com
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