[Casper] restricted software

[Miles Leacy]

Assuming your users aren't admins, you could limit your search & destroy
scripts to locations that a user has access to (i.e., ~ and /Users/Shared/).
If your users are admins, you've got bigger problems.  :)

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On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Thomas Larkin <tlarki at kckps.org> wrote:

>  Well I was using search and destroy scripts using the find command and it
> killed my logs.  I deleted those policies and I shaved off, get this, an
> epic 5 gigs off of my MySQL database on the JSS.  It looks like the find
> command was indexing every single file on the computer, which is like
> millions, and even with limited scope search paths it was still too much.
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>  The find commands work well for one time execution over ARD admin though.
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> >>> Miles Leacy <miles.leacy at themacadmin.com> 03/02/09 10:24 AM >>>
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>  2009/3/2 Thomas Larkin
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>>  So Casper will shut down Skype.app but me just listing it exactly what
>> the process is called right?
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>   Right. I'd enter a message to display to the user, unless you want them
> to think that the app's failure to launch is a system issue, then you can
> have the help desk scold them when they call in. :)
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>   What I really like is that you can send email notifications and delete
> the offending app too. This eliminates the need for "search and destroy"
> scripts for offending apps that you know about and don't want on your
> systems.
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