Imac g5 disable Burning CD

[mdetry]

I am buying 7 Imac 20" for a company and I need to disable the Burning of the CD-ROM for secrity reasons. Is this possible?

The CD/DVD should continue to read CDs and DVDs but should not be able to burn them?

Can this be made by software. Does anyone know how?

Thanks,

Marcos

 

[jackieonasses]

I am buying 7 Imac 20" for a company and I need to disable the Burning of the CD-ROM for secrity reasons. Is this possible?

The CD/DVD should continue to read CDs and DVDs but should not be able to burn them?

Can this be made by software. Does anyone know how?

Thanks,

Marcos

Yes, make a new account and go to "some limitations" then disable finder burning, and diable the program toast. THat should be easy....

 

[Falleron]

The above suggestion works great. You set what the user can do. I would greatly appeciate knowing if you found a way to do it systemwide so that it was not specific to the user.

Thanks

 

[Chappers]

Yeh take the plug off

Sorry

 

[saabmp3]

replace the burner with a DVDrom. Disabling some software, it'll always be possible to put something else on instead which can burn.

BEN

 

[Counterfit]

If the CDs & DVDs preference pane is one of the lockable ones (By which I mean it's only accessible to admins, which I think it is), you can set "When you insert a blank CD" and "When you insert a blank DVD" to "Ignore" and that might work. It would be best to use a combination of that and the user limitations through the account.

 

[Mechcozmo]

Place duct tape over the CD slot.

In the users pane is the only way I know how to do it. Just disable all the programs that can burn and you are set. Takes a while though..