[HM] Soft Updates/ Permissions

Duane Murphy duanemurphy at mac.com
Mon Mar 21 12:18:42 PST 2005


--- At Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:34:28 -0800, Howard Scudder wrote:

>Im running a network for a school using macs with a
>Admin/ Teacher and student accounts on each computer.
>(my bosses idea)
>
>Ok, is there a way to do a software update on all
>three accounts at the same time?  When I update a
>student account I then have to do it again on the
>teacher or admin account.  Any shortcuts?
>
>Same thing with repairing permissions.  If I do it on
>the Admin/ Root account do I need to do it on the
>other two accounts?

I expect that this is a normal setup where all the applications are
shared by all the users. 

Do not do any updates from the non-admin accounts. The only place that
makes sense to update is the admin account. The admin account will have
access and get the permissions set correctly for all of the global resources.

 ...Duane



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