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Written by Deborah Suggs
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Monday, 11 October 2004 |
Here's a quick tip about how to prevent non-administrators from altering the list of printers.
By default, the Print Center utility in Mac OS X is not secure. Users have rights that enable them to add and remove printers and stop queues. These changes remain after the user logs out affecting the next user. You can secure the Print Center so that the user can still select between printers and print but only the administrator can modify the Print Center.
Print Center is located in the Utilities folder. Good security practices suggest that several utilities included with Mac OS X should be restricted from user access. You may want to create such a folder and put Print Center into it. You can also simply secure the Print Center application. These directions assume that root is not enabled.
Launch Terminal.
Locate the folder you wish to restrict.
Use the chmod command to remove rights for everyone for read access. They should only have the right to execute the program. For example, to secure the folder Restricted that contains Print Center, enter the following command: sudo chmod -R a-r Restricted
The end result will be a folder visible in the Finder but one that cannot be opened by the user. When the user selects the Print command all the printers that have been entered in the Print Center will be available. If the user should select the option "Edit Printer List..." the Print Center will not launch. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 15 October 2004 )
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