Parental controls can only be applied to a standard account.  Using a standard 
account will not allow you to run software update without an administrative 
username and password. 

Jim

On Jan 16, 2012, at 7:29 PM, Bill Spencer <wspen...@jhu.edu> wrote:

> On Monday, January 16, 2012 6:26:00 PM UTC-5, Dan wrote:
> In general, there be only normal and super(root).  The latter can do 
> anything, of course.
> 
> But if you're just looking to limit file access, then you can do 
> things with group IDs or even with access control lists...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The hope is to be able to keep parental controls in place but allow 
> software-update-type actions. Bill 
> 

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