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Re: unwanted password dialog
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Re: unwanted password dialog


  • Subject: Re: unwanted password dialog
  • From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:36:34 -0500

So, this means that if the user doesn't have an admin and password, this can't be turned on.

If you're delivering something for the enterprise, then it's quite possible that they may not have admin rights on their box.

Sounds like a "security enhancement" in Lion.

On Oct 31, 2011, at 5:46 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:

> On Oct 31, 2011, at 4:58 PM, Ron Hunsinger wrote:
>> That's not going to help you if, as is the usual case, the target user is root.
>
> Yes and another experiment later I've found that "Enable access for assistive devices" is unnecessarily complicated by this:
> 	I turned it off;
> 	I logged into a standard user;
> 	I turned it on, requiring an admin username & password;
> 	I logged out and back into my usual (admin) user;
> 	It was turned on.
> So ... "Enable access for assistive devices" is a computer-wide setting, not a user preference.
>
> Why????????
> If one user on the computer needs this, why do the others have to have it enabled?
> Why shouldn't this be a user preference?
>
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