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From: hoodr@syscube.csus.edu (Robert Hood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Can I stop everyone from resetting the system clock?
Message-ID: <1990Mar2.023809.25321@csusac.csus.edu>
Date: 2 Mar 90 02:38:09 GMT
References: <2170@milton.acs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: hoodr@syscube.UUCP (Robert Hood)
Organization: California State University: Sacramento
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In article <2170@milton.acs.washington.edu> pentch@milton.acs.washington.edu (Dean Pentcheff) writes:
>On the Next that I adminstrate, we've just discovered that any user
>(via Preferences) can reset the system clock to any arbitrary value.
>This is unacceptable.
>
>How can I disable users' ability to do this?
>
Yes...I just did that earlier this week!

1)  Use fsectbyname (from most NeXT archives) to remove the time panel
	from prefences:

	fsectbyname r Preferences __NIB time > time.nib

2)  Use InterfaceBuilder to modify time.nib.  DO NOT MAKE THE FILE BIGGER.
	In otherwords don't add anything.  I also don't recommend removing any
	of the buttons either.  I resized the window to make it larger.  I then
	draged all the stuff I didn't want modified down towards the bottom.
	Then I resized the window to cover up the stuff! (Make sure you resize
	it to the same size it was before).  The only button I left was the
	button that changes the clock face.

3)  Reload time.nib into Preferences.

	fsectbyname w Preferences __NIB time < time.nib

Don't do this on your only copy!

Robert Hood  --  California State University: Sacramento   (916) 278-7402
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