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Re: File Extensions
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Re: File Extensions


  • Subject: Re: File Extensions
  • From: Aram Greenman <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 23:30:26 -0700

On Wednesday, May 8, 2002, at 04:47 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote:

On Tuesday, May 7, 2002, at 01:54 PM, Patrick Tescher wrote:

I am currently trying to make a browser for a High School that will only
open certain types of files. This is because the built in security in Mac OS
X is not enough to stop people from playing games and messing up the Macs.

Sure it is! :-)

[privileges, etc, snipped]

It's difficult to keep people from installing games in their home folders. Instead, just install a shell script that's run by cron every five minutes or so, that looks for and deletes any executables it finds under user home folders.

But if a user doesn't have write access outside of their home folder, they can't do anything to 'mess things up', which I think was Patrick's main concern.

Aram
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