Assistance with disabling Photobooth login picture button

Hello to all,
I am a little new to the forums as a poster but I have a question that I have been working on for a while and I have not found an answer to this as of yet. Please forgive me if I put this in the wrong cattegory. A little background first, I work for a school district which like so many others has puchased a great deal of Macs. When we started receiving the iMacs with the iSight cameras we also got Photobooth. This little application though has a function built into it that I have not found a way of stopping. When running the program and you select a picture it gives you a button which says "Account Picture", which will make the picture the picture next to your name on the login screen. This is not a big deal for the general user but in a school we have a lot of children who love to make silly pictures and then when they click on this button it changes what is supposed to be a standard login item. This is really problematic when you account for the ones who make inappropriate gestures while doing this.
What I would like to know is there a way to either make the button not appear or block the allowance for this button to work? The account in question is a limmited user and this is running on a 10.4.11 machines (both intel and G5). I am also not allowed to uninstall it or black access to the program. I also must allow for the login names and cannot just have them type in the account name to hide the pictures. These are mandates from the districts specialists which want to use the program despite the time that people lose cleaning the login screens on the computers. Any ideas that you can offer will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
ANotti

I'm not sure if Parental Controls allows you to restrict a user's ability to make changes in Accounts preferences, but that would be the first thing to check. If the user cannot make changes to Accounts preferences, then they would not be able to change the login image.
If the above isn't available, then you could block access to the folder where the images are stored. Normally the images saved by Photo Booth are saved in /Home/Pictures/Photo Booth/. This folder is normally accessible by the user. There is a similar folder in each user account on the computer. You can change the privileges on the folder such that the user has read-only rights. If the user does not have write privileges then they cannot save an image in that folder. They can still snap a picture with Photo Booth, but they cannot save it, so they cannot make it an account picture. Only those images already saved in the folder will be usable for account pictures. If you allow the students to take one picture to save in the folder, and you then change the folder's access to read-only except for the admin user. This would be an inelegant solution because you would need to monitor the initial use of Photo Booth for the account picture, then change the permissions of the folder in each user account. This would be a royal pain, but if Parental Controls doesn't have an included solution such as denying access to the Accounts preferences then I don't know of another solution that doesn't involve buying third-party software that expands the reach of Parental Controls.

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