Re: Monitor calibration & profiling in a multiuser OSX
Re: Monitor calibration & profiling in a multiuser OSX
- Subject: Re: Monitor calibration & profiling in a multiuser OSX
- From: Roger Howard <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 14:19:53 -0700
On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 10:00 PM,
email@hidden wrote:
So what you want is to prevent users from creating profiles, and leave
that right to the system administrator only. Like I said there's
already sort of a workaround for that, by disallowing users from making
any changes to system prefs, and by logging in as root when you do the
calibration which will set the root user's display profile for all
users who haven't chosen a profile. If you want a checkbox that would
enforce this profile for all users no matter what, even if they've
already chosen a profile prior to this, well that gets into a whole
discussion of whether it's a user priviledge or an admin only
priviledge. Currently it's a user priviledge, and I doubt that will
change. I think it's reasonable to assume a level of at least
competency on the part of users with the normal limitation settings.
For environments in which users are less than competent...or even
malicious (schools)...there's a whole slew of limitations you can put
on users in the Accounts system prefs. They're actually pretty useful.
Another possible solution (haven't tested this specifically, though it
works with other Preference Panes) is to move the "Displays.prefPane"
file from /System/Library/PreferencePanes/, and make a copy in
~/Library/PreferencePanes for each user you want to grant access to
that Pane to. This should allow you to restrict even the visibility of
the Display prefpane on a per-user basis. You'll need root to modify
the system this way... let us know if it works!
Best,
Roger Howard
Senior Digital Media Specialist, The J. Paul Getty Trust
work 310/440.6908 | email@hidden
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