Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!ucla-cs!maui.cs.ucla.edu!tj From: tj@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Tom Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Chooser name question Message-ID: <36952@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 13 Jul 90 17:41:36 GMT References: <4562.269b6b80@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <269BF792.4840@intercon.com> Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 24 In article <269BF792.4840@intercon.com> amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes: >In article <4562.269b6b80@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>, o4ry@vax5.cit.cornell.edu >writes: >> Is it possible to prevent someone from changing the Chooser Name? Thanks. > >Only if you prevent people from booting up their own system disks. With >that caveat, you can edit the Chooser's DITL resource with ResEdit and >change the type of the name field from "Edit Text" to "Static Text". >Voila: it's read-only. >Amanda Walker This was the first thing I tried, when I decided something like this was needed for the machines in our public Mac labs. But I'm afraid that it doesn't work. The field comes up as Static text, and clicking on it does no good, but if you start typing the default name is replaced with the new characters. You might try locking the STR -16096 resource in the System Folder--this insures that the name you want will be installed at least on every start-up of the machine. Tom -- Tom Johnson UCLA Computer Science Department 3413 Boelter Hall, Los Angeles CA 90024 (213)825-6952 Internet: tj@cs.ucla.edu