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Re: Your Script :) Re: AppleScript to get UserName!??
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Re: Your Script :) Re: AppleScript to get UserName!??


  • Subject: Re: Your Script :) Re: AppleScript to get UserName!??
  • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:59:58 -0700

On 10/23/01 6:22 PM, John W Baxter <email@hidden> wrote:

>>I don't see a way to set password with plain vanilla AS. Just a boolean
>>(true/false) for the existence of a p/w. May require an OSAX. This one,
>>however, will do the rest.
>
>I certainly hope there's not a way to set the password. Setting the owner
>password via a script would be a security violation of high order. Even if
>someone has to induce the machine's owner to run the script by hand (that
>route is what makes the fairly recent PDF file worm work...Windows with
>Acrobat (not Reader) only so far).

Unless the apple event would require both the old and the new password.

--Michelle

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