Parental Controles, restricted apps...

Hi,
I've set my sons machine up with parental controles and restricted what apps he can run. Everything seemed ok, but one of his apps contains a unix executable within the package. Now whats happening when he uses this allowed app, it trys to use unrar and throws up a message telling him its not allowed. I've tried clicking on the Allways Allow button and giving the admin password but its not working.
I've even tried opening the app package and draging the unrar exe into the allowable apps box, but it just disapears after a reboot. Anyone know if there is a list of apps I can add to manually...?
Many thanks in advance...

I don't have "Tiger", but with "Panther", this issue was most often due to the fact that the problem app did not have either (depending on the type of app) a unique "creator" code, or a 'CFBundleIdentifier' specified in its "Info.plist" file. As alluded to in the article below, the responsibility lies largely with the developer of the programme, although there are some special cases where Apple could improve things on their end.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300842
At this point, you could begin to look in to how to edit the "Info.plist" file, and make modifications to the 'mcx_settings' (in the "NetInfo" database where the settings for "managed" accounts are stored), and this would be necessary for a "Some Limits" account.
However, for a "Simple Finder" account (which doesn't actually limit application use), an easier workaround would be for the "admin" to switch to log in to the account, go to "Finder" > "Switch to Full Finder", and manually add "alias" files for the "missing" applications to a folder accessible to the user. Note that if the user's "~/Library/Managed Items/My Applications" folder is to be used, it will be necessary to use "Get Info" to "lock" the aliases since the contents of that folder are determined by the contents of 'mcx_settings' and any alias not listed would be deleted during the next login unless it is locked.

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