[UniMacTech] Leopard Parental Controls Break Firefox?

[Terry Brady]

Hi Mark,

On 29/02/2008, at 9:17 AM, Mark Szota wrote:
> It seems Leopard's inbuilt Parental Controls are causing problems  
> with managed users who use Firefox.
...
> This behaviour does not occur when they are standard users, but then  
> they are able to modify the dock, change the account password, etc.  
> which I can't allow.
...
> Are there any workarounds that will solve this problem?

You could try implementing policies to manage the Dock and so on using  
Workgroup Manager. This mechanism shouldn't interfere with Firefox's  
web access. See <afp548.com/article.php?story=using-mcx-in-the-dslocal- 
domain>.

Cheers,
TB


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