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I am a middle school IT person and I need to prevent Safari from saving passwords, or even offering to save passwords. I know how to block passwords for individual websites, but with 255 computers and over 900 students, that method is not very practical. I need to stop Safari from ever saving passwords for websites.
Any ideas?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I'd think that setting com.apple.safari : AutoFillPasswords to false or 0 , using whatever method you usually employ to change settings would do it.
Not sure what you mean.
David
how do you currently enforce preferences/settings/policies ?
there's a key in com.apple.safari.plist
AutoFillPasswords
if it's set to 0 or false - safari won't ask to save passwords
Create a profile in OS X Server with the Safari settings you want in the payload, and push it to the clients.
Wish I could but don't have a server (don't ask). Just using mote desktop.
We control using remote desktop and parental controls. Still not sure what you are talking about when editing the preference file. How is this done?
What is I his key and where is it?
Wish I could but don't have a server
$20.
Linc is right.
the pref file, it's ~/Library/Preferences/com.Apple.Safari.plist
but that won't stop users from altering it back
workgroup manager is free, and makes it relatively easy to make such changes & stop them being altered, assuming you can 'see' the other accounts. There's a ML version too. No server ? - ARD can enforce the changes, I don't recall the details.
Yeah, but i have an old machine and need to upgrade that and the school has no money
OK, I must be increadibly dense.
Yes, I know about the plist file. But how do you edit or change it? What application is used?
Safari will change it, for a single user, when the autofill settings in preferences are altered.
The Defaults command or any plist editor will also do so.
If you can't use a server, look at pushing workgroup manager changes out using ARD, since that will 1: make the change & 2: enforce it so that users can't re-select Safari-Preferences-Autofill...User names & passwords
OK, I'm starting to understand. There were assumptions made in responses to my question; like I knew how to edit plist files.
I opened the plist file in Text Wrangler and it was already set to "false". If have deselected all Autofill options in Safari. Does this stop passwords from being saved? It seems that all a user needs to do is to recheck the boxes and I'm back to the same problem.
Is there anyway I can make these changes password protected so that users do not have access to Safari Preferences?
Not remotely. You would have to set up managed preferences with Workgroup Manager on each machine.
David, I did assume that, yes - sorry for the confusion.
You're right about users clicking boxes & back to same... but how do you currently say, stop them from altering all the other settings in Safari/Finder etc ?.
what OS X version do these macs have?
are you ok to run 'sudo' terminal commands on them via ARD ?
are there multiple users on each?, same names on each mac?
I need to prevent Safari from saving passwords on 255 computers
