<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote>Couldnt you just crete a "Managed" ie parental controlled account that only allows access to specific applications?</div><div>this is available in the accounts panel of the system prefs.</div><div><br></div><div>not sure how changing the status of this on the fly would go?</div><div><br></div><div>Just a thought.</div><div><br></div><div>Kieren</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Mark Secker <<a href="mailto:mark@biz.uwa.edu.au">mark@biz.uwa.edu.au</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">4 November 2008 11:46:58 AM<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">University Macintosh Technical Forum <<a href="mailto:unimactech@auc.edu.au">unimactech@auc.edu.au</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[UniMacTech] changing managed user settings using ARD?</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">University Macintosh Technical Mailing List <<a href="mailto:unimactech@auc.edu.au">unimactech@auc.edu.au</a>><br></span></div><br><br>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.<br><br>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)<br><br>I'm assuming that I can do this via a unix using chmod (the account is also a group)?<br><br>however is there a "easier" way to script this through Apple Script and/or Apple Remote Desktop's scripting?<br><br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>