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    jeffh
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    I am running 10.5.5 on a MacPro. When I use preferences to manage the apps the user group can run, the user still can’t open some of those apps that are allowed, specifically, Garage Band and Firefox although there are more. If I use the folder option and allow those same apps they do run. The question is why do they work under the folders option and not under allow only these applications to run section? I am using only groups to manage, not individual users or computers or computer groups. There is also no local user of the same name. This just doesn’t make sense to me.

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    tlarkin
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    Are you assigning unique IDs to each application? If so you will need to drill down into the contents of each application and approve all of the apps with in the app itself. I know garage band is one of them. Which is why I ended up going with folder access over an approved application list, then revoked all write permissions to folders that store applications so users can’t drop anything in there. Then if any application does need write access I create a symbolic link to the file and toss that file into /Users/Shared.

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