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From: mjm@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Michael McClemen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Locking the "chooser" user name?
Keywords: chooser username appletalk
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Date: 20 Jun 89 19:57:51 GMT
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In article <835@unocss.UUCP> dent@unocss.UUCP (Dave Caplinger) 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 :-).

I'm not sure that locking the chooser name is the best way to do this.  Anyone
booting from a floppy disk (or hacking with resedit) could change it.  However,
for your purposes, what you need is simply an init that would set itself up
as an Appletalk responder and broadcast a string stored on the machine's hard
disk in response to a given signal.  As to where you could find such a beastie,
though, I've no idea...

>Is the function of "Responder" related to this, and if not, what does
>"Responder" do?  Can this be acheived at all with any existing software?

I'm not sure...

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Michael McClennen