Macintosh Manager: Third-Party Application Allows Access to Restricted Area

Some third-party applications used in a Macintosh Manager environment may allow users access to areas of the file system from which Macintosh Manager would normally restrict them.
Symptom

Using certain applications in a Macintosh Manager environment, users have access to an area of the file system that would otherwise be restricted by Macintosh Manager. This may occur through an open or save dialog box. It might also happen, for example, in the Recent Items feature of a word processing application.


Solution

Macintosh Manager limits calls for file system access that an application makes when the application uses standard Mac OS system calls. If a third-party application uses proprietary (nonstandard) calls for access, Macintosh Manager used with Mac OS 8.x does not limit them.

There are two solutions for administrators whose users are affected by this issue:
Published Date: Feb 18, 2012