Re: Entourage
Re: Entourage
- Subject: Re: Entourage
- From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:03:02 -0700
- Thread-topic: Entourage
> Then you are saying that individual security on the macs is not a worry. The
> login is the primary mode of general security on the Mac. Unless you make
> everything require a password, then with a shared login, you effectively
> have no security in that account.
Yea, that pretty much says it. People generally don't keep sensitive files
on their macs and at this point it's only those have upgraded to Entourage
who are concerned that someone can even accidentally access their private
emails.
> Outlook was never originally designed to work offline, and it was designed
> for an OS that had almost no concept of local security.
>
And yet our users 'felt' more secure...
> Entourage is attachable, that has nothing to do with launching startup
scripts.
I'm not sure about the semantics any more, but there are levels of
attachability including the ability to attach a script to an application
that will be triggered whenever the application is launched. (See below). I
think they may have called that "tinkerability" at some point.
> Unix is not Windows, it does things differently. What you are trying to do,
> while well-intentioned, is going, not may, but will bite you in the ass in
> short order not just from a security POV, but from a usability POV.
> What would be really cool would be if Entourage could launch the scripts
> itself when it launches or quits, but that would require a level of
> attachability and tinkerability that's not there, right?
Of course it is. If you set a Schedule (Tools/Schedules/New) to run the
script(s) (via Action: <Run AppleScript>, click the <Script...> button to
locate the script) and set the "When" (Occurrence) of the schedule to <At
Startup> or <On Quit>, and Enable the schedule, it will do exactly that.
Thank you Paul and John, that's exactly the kind of information I was hoping
to get.
Ed
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