[UniMacTech] changing managed user settings using ARD?

[Graeme Challis]

On 04/11/2008, at 1:46 PM, Mark Secker wrote:
> I've got a lab I look after for another faculty where (for ... um...  
> "non technical" reasons) the owners of that lab have  their students  
> login using a single, managed, local account.
>
> I now need to change permissions on this managed account so that  
> they can't run FireFox or IE (Yeh I.E. for mac in all it's obsolete  
> glory- they had insisted earlier that I install this off of the old  
> macs on to their new intel iMacs)
>
> I'm assuming that I can do this via a unix using chmod (the account  
> is also a group)?
>
> however is there a "easier" way to script this through Apple Script  
> and/or Apple Remote Desktop's scripting?


Not sure what you mean by "managed" - could not this management method  
preclude opening Firefox or IE without resorting to flipping bits?

If you really don't want those apps to run, they could be deleted...

ARD makes it really easy - select all machines needing the change and  
"Send UNIX command...". Removing the execute bit does it... chmod 444 / 
Applications/Firefox.app

Change to suit if you really need other users or admins able to run  
them.

Cheers, Grae.
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