Hi Tim, Sorry for not getting back to you in a while.
The preferences control for user management seems like a straight forward but daunting task. I wanted to share this little command line application that allows you to simulate moving a mouse to an x y coordinate and click the mouse. http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2008051406323031 You can type for instance click -x 500 -y 500 and it will move the mouse cursor to that location and emulate a click. It doesn't matter whether the wgm window is open then as you can always aftewards physically reclick the button. I use this often for certain au plugins on garage band that are not accessible. In this case, you can create a do shell script within applescript to get to the coordinates you want. You will eventually need to confirm that your coordinates are where each of the preferences are with the option shift 3 command if my memory serves me right, or using the voice over command to check where the mouse is in x y coordinates, which you obcviously have to configure in the vo settings. I will try this out when i have sighted assistance, but it has worked for me on several other applications which are exactly at the same degree of inaccessibility as the wgm user preferences pane. Hope this makes your life easier :) Best regards, Yuma On 28/01/2012, at 8:38 PM, TIM KILBURN wrote: > Hi Yuma/Scott, >> >> 1. For adding Users to Groups in WGM, it works in either direction. That >> is, adding the users to the Group or adding Group membership to the specific >> user. In each situation, use the SL drag and drop method and things work >> properly, I haven't had much success with the Lion method in WGM. >> >> I usually do it from the Group prospective when adding users to a Group as I >> find it easier to manage. Here's my best recollection as I'm out of town >> right now and doing this from memory. >> >> • Select the Groups tab. >> • Select the Members tab. >> • Interact with the Groups table and select the Group you wish to add >> members to. >> • check the Add button. >> >> This should open the Users Drawer for you.. The Users Drawer appears way up >> by the Toolbar so I usually just press VO-home to get me quickly to the >> Toolbar then VO-right to the Drawer. >> >> • Interact with the Drawer. >> • Interact with the Table and navigate to the user you wish to add. >> • Turn off cursor tracking and mouse down on the user to pick it up. >> • Stop Interacting with the Table, as well as the Drawer and navigate to >> the membership Table. >> • Interact with it then mouse up to drop the User there. >> >> If you have multiple users to do this to, just use whatever multiple >> selection method works in your situation, contiguous or non-contiguous >> selecting. >> >> 2. For accessing the User or Group Preferences in WGM, I first had to >> figure out the following placement of the various Preference items. I put >> this list into a TextEdit file in case I forget. They are set up in rows of >> three in this manner: >> >> Applications - Classic - Dock >> Finder - Login - Media Access >> Mobility - Network - Parental >> Printing - Software Updates - System Preferences >> Universal Access >> >> Each item brings up an accessible pane for setting User/Group/Computer >> preferences. The problem is that these are not visible to VO at all, nor >> can you use HotSpots to locate them. So I've just used mouse keys instead. >> There may be another way but I got so used to using mouse keys that I'm >> stuck with it so far. Here's what I do. >> >> • Select Preferences in the toolbar. >> • Select the Users, Groups or Machines tab depending on what I wish to >> control. >> • Select the User or Group from the Table. >> • Stop Interacting with the Table and VO-left where it says something about >> "Select one or more Accounts...". >> • I then press VO-cmd-f5 to make sure my mouse is where the VO-cursor just >> read. >> • Press the Option key five times to turn mouse keys on. (You set this up >> in the Universal Access pane of System Prefs). >> • Press the "2" key on the number pad 60 times to go down to the first row, >> 125 for the second, 190 for the third and 250 for the fourth. >> >> This will land you on the middle item of the row of three and, yes, I lose >> count sometimes and have to start over. That's probably why I've complained >> to Apple about it to no avail. You don't have to be exact but if you go too >> far down, you'll end up in the next row and have to start over anyway. >> >> • If you want the first item, like Applications, move left 140 times with >> the "4" key on the numPad or if you wish the right most item in the row, use >> the "6" key 140 times to land on it. >> >> • When you suspect that you're on the correct item, just press the "5" key >> for the mouse press. >> >> Voila, all the inaccessible stuff now becomes accessible. You can set which >> apps are allowed, which printers are available, what's on the users Dock, >> how they access Software Updates, restrict the Internet and lots of other >> things. You can always have control, sometimes (which means set it up the >> first time then let them do whatever afterwards), or never control that >> preference. If you really want to dig deep, you can play with MCX >> Preference Manifests in the Details tab of WGM. This sort of detail allows >> you to specifically control the state of specific preference items like >> homepage in Safari, whether Word Auto-Saves and much more. >> >> Hope this is clear. If I've messed up at all, let me know and I'll look at >> WGM when I get home after this weekend and fix the steps I may have missed. >> Otherwise, have fun but be careful, you do have the power to mess things up. >> >> Later.. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 27, 2012, at 11:02 PM, Yuma Decaux <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Tim, >> >> You previously mentioned a method to access user preferences in Workgroup >> manager, which would probably be helpful to SCott's home server endeavor. >> >> Can you give us a short how-to? I can't remember the one that was suggested >> for adding users to groups etc as i now use the iphone app. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Yuma >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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