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In article <1db75he.eod7xv123y4e8N@roxley.demon.co.uk>,
mark@roxley.demon.co.uk (Mark Etherington) wrote:

> Norman Brooks <Norman@nbrooks.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > My daughter is the librarian at the local school, she has 3 Macs in the
> > library, ( if the type is important I can find out, but 2 of them are
> > fairly new). She needs to stop the kids from changing the settings,
> > desktop colours,fonts etc etc. I know how to do this on pc's (using
> > poledit etc) but not on Macs. Can anyone give advice, I would be
> > grateful if you could possibly cc by e-mail, as I don't get a lot of
> > chance to log on to usenet and I would hate to miss any advice given.
> 

I am a postgrad student at University College London. Whilst it might
appear that undergrad and postgrad students are ostensibly more mature
than your average kid,in practice this is not the case. As a result,
precisely the problem you describe occurs frequently in and around the
University with the Macs the Uni has. 

In an effort to stop the problem, the Uni uses a peice of software called
"Gatekeeper" which not only prevents users from altering the system folder
in any way, but it also prevents any software being copied from or to the
Startup disk (usually the internal HD but this needn't necessarily be so -
especially if on a network).

I can't recall who manufactures Gatekeeper or where you can get it from
but a brief search of Mac related web sites of the net will almost
certainly provide you with a web site for it were you can get a demo copy.
From the sounds of it, Gatekeeper would be ideally suited for what you
need. Not only this, the security is very good as there is several levels
of password protection applied.
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