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Re: Applescript apps and Parental Control
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Re: Applescript apps and Parental Control


  • Subject: Re: Applescript apps and Parental Control
  • From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:50:28 -0500

You can change the creator type ... but you shouldn't. I am under the impression that creator types are obsolete and that applications are now identified by a UTI. And you shouldn't change that, either.

However, I see a bigger problem here. I have written an AppleScripted application which is available as shareware. Within the application bundle, in the Contents/Resources/ folder, there are two complete application bundles. One of these is is copied to a location where the user can launch it as necessary, while the other is run only by the outer application.

The Parental Control restrictions you have described would seem to interfere with my scheme. I have done little testing as a non-admin user, and none with PC enabled, but I probably should do so.

This looks like something that a bug report should be filed against.

On Jun 10, 2007, at 2:18 AM, Antonino Petriliggieri wrote:

While working on a project for a medium organization that wants osx macs deployed with non-admin rights and limited access to applications I needed to authorize 3 applescript droplet, but Parental Control let me add just one.
The problem is that all applescript apps have the same creator type and "only" this specific information is used for listing authorized apps. Of course any application has, in general, a unique creator type, but the same limitation applies to copies or different versions of the same application.


This is in my opinion a serious limitation in usage of Parental Control in business environment.

There is any alternative to change the creator type of each droplet to solve the problem?

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