Re: Mac Password Protection

Erin O'Donnell (odonnele@frontier.wilpaterson.edu)
Wed, 6 Mar 1996 01:46:14 EST

We use the At Ease program in the elementary schools. You can set up
folders with the particular programs you want students to work on.
Getting to the finder can be protected by a password. You can also lock
out all of the Apple Menu items. This works really well for our students.
The lower elementary students don't always realize there is something
beyond the menu that they see.

Erin O'Donnell
Technology Teacher
Rockaway, NJ
odonnele@frontier.wilpaterson.edu

>>Does any one know a way to protect the "Apple" Icon on the top left
>>conner of the screen?
>>
>>Problem: We have some very investigative students and not knowing
>>teachers that love plying around with the settings and options under this
>>apple icon, such as chooser, time, keyboard, virtual memory, etc. Then
>>they come to us (techies) and complain that the computer is broken again.

Terry Holmes <TerryHolme@aol.com> responded:
> I want to echo another response: Stay away from At Ease 3.0 for Workgroups on
> a network. It is slow (it would be impossible on an AppleTalk network) and
> has the tendency to crash the network causing about a 20 minute delay as
> everything has to be rebooted.