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

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Mac OS X's Security & Privacy Options = Global for all accounts?
Date	2017-03-05 18:02 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<ei326gFob8bU4@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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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.

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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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