[geeks] Macitude

[Phil Stracchino]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Tue, 28 Mar 2006 @ 11:27 -0500, Phil Stracchino said:
>>Anyone have any suggestions, aside from making them full unrestricted users?
> 
> The way I remember it, panels didn't let you do a whole lot.

No, but it's very friendly to 3-to-6-year-old users.

> However, I think you might be able to get a third party program that
> will do what you want.
> 
> Alternately, write something in Applescript.
> 
> Couldn't you use panels to run a program which sets up the virtual
> drives, so they just click and go?

The problem seems to be that making them full unrestricted users is the
ONLY way I can make OS9 give them permission to mount disk images.  I
don't know AppleScript, but unless it has some kind of sudo equivalent,
they presumably can't run an Applescript that mounts images either.  I
can tell OS9 they have permission to mount CDROMs and permission to
mount other removable media, but I guess it doesn't consider images
"removable media".


This kinda crap is part of why I've always hated Macs.


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