You could watch process launching on the system, and then try to determine
which DashboardClient is which widget (not sure exactly how to do that) and
the kill that process. Note that you will have to kill the widget at least
2 times as the dashboard server will relaunch it.
If your users are not admin, you could possibly lock down the file system so
that they cannot install widget. Change the privs of ~/Library/Widgets/ and
the owning folder.
Thanks,
jl
> I'd prefer not to disable it completely, as I was going to use widgets to
> display user quota information. So if I can't use a wrapper, perhaps there is
> some way of being notified of a widget process being created, and then
> terminate it if its not allowed?
>
> On 26/11/2005, at 5:06 PM, John Louch wrote:
>
>> There is no way to wrap the DashboardClient process. There is a preference
>> to turn the Dashboard off completely.
>>
>> defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
>>
>> This is very easy for the user to workaround of course, since there are no
>> protections on the preference.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> jl
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This is more an internal workings of Dashboard question, but I wasn't sure
>>> where else to post it. I maintain around 400 clients and need a way to
>>> secure
>>> Dashboard, ie users cannot install or run their own widgets. I tried writing
>>> a
>>> little wrapper for the DashboardClient.app which works for some widgets, and
>>> others will produce these messages in the syslog:
>>>
>>> 2005-11-25 21:36:29.290 DashboardClient.2[752] failed to create startup
>>> object
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> My guess is its trying to do some sort of interprocess communication. Any
>>> ideas how to get around this, or alternative ideas would be great too?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kris
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>>>
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> Kris Kopicki
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>
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>
>
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>
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