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Re: Mac OS X's Security & Privacy Options = Global for all accounts?

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On 2017-03-06, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2017-03-05, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
>> > Hello.
>> >
>> > I noticed Mac OS X/El Capitan v10.11.6's Security & Privacy Options seem 
>> > to affect for all accounts (administrators and standard). I was tweaking 
>> > which apps, locations, etc. Firewall is understandable. Is this by 
>> > design? I thought it would only affect to the account I was changing in.
>
>> Yep, it's by design. And it makes perfect sense to me that you would
>> want these settings to apply globally.
>
> Interesting. So users can't have their own settings for apps, locations, 
> etc. Bummer.

There are several items in the Privacy panel: 

Location Services: 

These are system-wide settings that determine which applications on the
system are allowed to obtain the system's location.

Contacts, Calendars, and Reminders:

These are per-user settings that determine which applications may access
the user's contacts, calendars, and reminders.

Social Media Services (Twitter, Facebook):

These are also per-user settings that determine which applications may
access social media services for that user.

Accessibility:

System-wide settings that determine which applications may control the
user interface of the system.

Diagnostics & Usage:

System-wide settings that determine whether diagnostic & usage reports
are sent to Apple and application developers.

Other tabs in the System Preferences > Security & Privacy window:

General:

This is a mix of system-wide and per-user settings, which seems
appropriate.

Firewall:

This is system-wide for obvious reasons. 

FileVault:

Whole-disk encryption is system-wide.

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Mac OS X's Security & Privacy Options = Global for all accounts? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-03-05 09:57 -0800
  Re: Mac OS X's Security & Privacy Options = Global for all accounts? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-05 18:02 +0000
    Re: Mac OS X's Security & Privacy Options = Global for all accounts? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2017-03-06 02:08 -0600
      Re: Mac OS X's Security & Privacy Options = Global for all accounts? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-06 15:57 +0000
        Re: Mac OS X's Security & Privacy Options = Global for all accounts? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2017-03-07 02:16 -0600
          Re: Mac OS X's Security & Privacy Options = Global for all accounts? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-07 15:49 +0000

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