The Loomiverse

My last post touched on getting XCode running for a non-administrator user, using the WorkGroup manager.  Unfortunately, it isn’t that easy when the user in question is restricted to a subset of available applications with Parental Controls.

I was able to create an XCode group as a member of Developer Tools and Developer Documentation.  Adding Loom at Work to that group got the XCode environment working for that user, even though the user is a managed user.

The Loom at Work account has no restrictions on aplication execution though, and that is more significant than I first realised.    I’ll go as far as saying it should have been obvious.  Loom is heavily restricted when compared to Loom at Work, so much so that even attempting to compile with XCode fails.  Loom can’t run any of the tools necessary to compile code.  Adding the tools progressively into the allowed applications list eventually gets a successful compile. But permission is needed to even run the new executable.

It seems that XCode and Application restrictions are not going to work nicely together – ever.  Like I said, it should have been obvious.

Until I can work out how to address the problem, it looks like no software development for Loom.

Possibly Related Posts:

• Parental Controls – Wrapping things up
• Parental Controls – First Impressions
• OSX Parental Controls
• Configuring Asterisk – Part 4
• Configuring Asterisk – Part 3