Re: Administrator question

2012-01-16 Thread Dan
At 5:16 PM -0500 1/16/2012, William Spencer wrote: Is there a way to create different administrators with different levels of access? I have a feeling not but would like to know for sure. In general, there be only normal and super(root). The latter can do anything, of course. But if

Re: Administrator question

2012-01-16 Thread Bill Spencer
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

Re: Administrator question

2012-01-16 Thread Jim Emery
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

Re: Administrator question

2012-01-16 Thread Dan
At 7:29 PM -0800 1/16/2012, Bill Spencer 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