6 - Privileges Section

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The Privilege section is the most important part of Gatekeeper. In this section you tell Gatekeeper what programs are allowed to perform operations that would otherwise be considered suspiciously virus-like. (These operations are known as "privileged operations".) This information allows Gatekeeper to operate automatically on behalf of you and others; preventing viruses from operating successfully while permitting normal programs to work unhindered.

Gatekeeper is distributed with a large list of common programs known to require privileges, so that most users will not need to worry about setting-up any privileges in order to use Gatekeeper on their Macintosh system.

In order to add a program to the privilege list, you can click on the "Add..." button and select the program using the standard "Open..." dialog box. Alternately, you can click on the "New..." button and type in the name of the program directly - note that this is often the only way to grant privileges to desk accessories.

In order to grant privileges to a program, click on the program's name in the privilege list and check the appropriate check-boxes that will appear at the bottom right side of the Privileges section. For an explanation of what the various privileges mean, see the "Gatekeeper in Principle" section of this document.

To changed the name of an item in the privilege list, select the item and click on the "Edit..." button. A dialog box will appear in which you can edit the item's name.

Removing an item from the privilege list is easiest of all; just select the item and click on the "Clear" button.

To keep confusion to a minimum certain changes are made to names as they are added to the privilege list, so don't be surprised if the name you enter isn't exactly the name that actually ends-up in the privilege list. Invisible characters like control characters are replaced with spaces. So are colons. Non-breaking spaces are replaced with conventional spaces. Spaces found at the beginning of names are always removed, and diacritical marks although they are preserved, are ignored when the list is searched. These translations make Gatekeeper good at coping with subtle changes to program names, and eliminates confusion like that which resulted when Apple quietly replaced the non-breaking space in DA Handler's name with a conventional space.

    Keyboard Shortcuts
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    home                Move to top of privilege list.
    end                 Move to bottom of privilege list.
    page up             Move up one "page."
    page down           Move down one "page."
    up-arrow            Select the previous line.
    down-arrow          Select the next line. 
    type-to-select      Typing a name will select the item 
                        most closely matching that name.
    return              Edit the selected item. Same as 
                        clicking on the "Edit..." button.
    enter               Same as return.
    command + e         Same as return.*
    delete              Delete the selected item. Same as 
                        clicking on the "Clear" button.
    backspace           Same as delete.
    clear               Same as delete.
    command + n         Create a new entry. Same as 
                        clicking on the "New..." button.*
    command + a         Add a new entry. Same as clicking 
                        on the "Add..." button.*
    command + o         Same as command + a.*
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    * System 7.0 does not allow control panels like 
    Gatekeeper Controls to receive most command key 
    shortcuts. Consequently, marked shortcuts do not work 
    in System 7.0 - this is not a bug in Gatekeeper.
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