PhotoBooth Replaces Managed Account Picture w/o Admin OK

Hi, the Photo Booth that comes with the OS is letting students replace the account photo where the account is managed. This is what I did.
1. Open Photo Booth and took a picture.
2. Clicked on the picture and then clicked on Account Picture.
3. It then popped up the screen where you need administrative rights to change the picture (always, only once, ok), so just click OK. And if everything holds, nothing is suppose to happen to the account picture, right? Wrong.
When I logged out of the managed account, the picture that was taken is now displayed for the account.
Since this is not good, at least security wise, I had remembered (way back in the old days) that there is a way in the terminal to prevent changes to the picture for the account. Does anyone know about this or of a fix? Because I would like for the students to still use this option to snap pictures for their presentations and such; but, I don't want to see a "questionable" picture pop up for the account.

I just noticed the same problem for us today! Same exact scenario....
I'm going to watch this thread for an answer
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