Re: Securing Dashboard

Why do you need to prevent users from using Dashboard?

Ben

On Nov 26, 2005, at 3:59 AM, Kris Kopicki wrote:

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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