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From: jmunkki@kampi.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Locking the "chooser" user name?
Message-ID: <22951@santra.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jun 89 12:06:38 GMT
References: <1889@dogie.macc.wisc.edu>
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Reply-To: jmunkki@kampi.hut.fi.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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In <1889@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> keir@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Rick Keir, MACC) writes:
>Can anyone suggest a way to set the "chooser" username once and then prevent
>it from being changed in the future?  I'm building a public user room Apple-
>Share network (file/print served), but I want to be able to tell which Macs
>(by physical location, like "Mac 3" etc) are 1) Logged into the server (all
>of the public macs will be using the guest account), and/or 2) connected to
>AppleTalk (whether they yanked the plug or not :-).
 
In article <835@unocss.UUCP>, dent@unocss.UUCP (Dave Caplinger) replies:
>The username is stored as a string in the "System" file;
>I don't remember where.  The chosen printer is stored in "STR " 
>-8192.

How about setting the protected bit (with ResEdit) after setting the names?
I don't know how the chooser would react to this, but it might work.

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