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

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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.
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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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