Clone Parental Control settings with Apple Remote Desktop |
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The key to cloning parental controls with ARD is niutil, the command line utility for netinfo. This works for Tiger (and probably Panther), but will not work in Leopard as Apple has finally banished netinfo from Leopard.
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Here's how to do the cloning...
Set the parental controls in the normal manner (System Preferences » Accounts » Parental Controls) on the donor machine.
On the ARD admin machine, select the donor machine and send this Unix command /usr/bin/niutil -readprop . /users/student mcx_settings, where student is the account with the parental controls; execute as root and be sure to display all output.
Select the plist in the ARD results window. Use Command-A to select all, then place the cursor in front of the first line of the plist, hold down shift, and click. Copy the plist.
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