[WEB4LIB] Re: Locking Down Mac OS 9

[Isabel Danforth]

we set preferences to accept cookies, but make the cookie file read only.
Therefore hotmail thinks it has set a cookie, but  it really has not.

we have prefs, cookies, history, and bookmark files all set to read only.

Isabel


At 02:38 PM 11/28/2000 -0800, Eric Hellman wrote:
>you can
>1. lock the "Internet Preferences" file in the Preferences folder. 
>This has a side effect of disabling setting of cookies. people won't 
>be able to use their hotmail accounts.
>2. or make a copy of this file and have a start-up AppleScript put 
>this into the Preferences folder, replacing the old one.  You can 
>have this script run periodically.
>
>
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