[WEB4LIB] Security using MacOS 9 and multiple users

[Josh Kuperman]

This one goes in the embarrassingly stupid category. In order to set
up a proxy-server or a lot of other things for the Guest account or
any severely limited user in MacOS9 you need to do the following.

1. As the administrative user change the guest account to a regular account.
2. Log into the guest account to change the settings, e.g. proxy settings.
3. As the administrative user change the account back to a limited account.



On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 10:24:22AM -0700, Josh Kuperman wrote:
> I am trying to set up security using the Multiple Users feature in
> MacOS 9. I am having odd problems. Is anyone else using MacOS 9
> multiple account system for security.
> 
> I have the machines set up with IP addresses that limit their use with
> a proxy server Squid.  Since the Multiple Users feature allows
> limiting to very few applications I thought it would provide enough
> security so I could simply set up the Guest account (doesn't require a
> password and is installed by default) to be an Internet browsing
> account. At the moment I'm working with MSIE 4.5. When I was unable to
> set the proxy-server for the guest account, I figured I'd see if
> anyone else was doing anything similar.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Josh Kuperman                       
> josh at saratoga.lib.ny.us

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Josh Kuperman                       
josh at saratoga.lib.ny.us