The Settings UI is a quick, interactive mechanism for configuring the settings for a specific domain. The Settings Manager presents a more detailed interface and provides the ability to make global changes that affect permissions for many or all domains. Additionally, when a new permission is requested by a SWF file, requiring run-time decisions concerning security or privacy, dialog boxes are displayed in which users can adjust some Flash Player settings.

The Settings Manager and Settings UI provide security-related options such as camera and microphone settings, shared object storage settings, settings related to legacy content, and so on.

For details on the Settings Manager, see www.adobe.com/go/settingsmanager.

Users and installer applications can register specified local SWF files as trusted. These SWF files are assigned to the local-trusted sandbox. They can interact with any other SWF files, and they can load data from anywhere, remote or local. A user designates a file as trusted in the User Flash Player Trust directory, which is in same directory as the shared object storage area, in the following locations (locations are specific to the current user):

• Windows: app data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#Security\FlashPlayerTrust

  (for example, C:\Documents and Settings\JohnD\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#Security\FlashPlayerTrust on Windows XP or C:\Users\JohnD\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\#Security\FlashPlayerTrust on Windows Vista)

  In Windows, the Application Data folder is hidden by default. To show hidden folders and files, select My Computer to open Windows Explorer, select Tools > Folder Options and then select the View tab. Under the View tab, select the Show hidden files and folders radio button.

• Mac: app data/Macromedia/Flash Player/#Security/FlashPlayerTrust

  (for example, /Users/JohnD/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#Security/FlashPlayerTrust)

  These settings affect only the current user, not other users who log in to the computer. If a user without administrative rights installs an application in their own portion of the system, the User Flash Player Trust directory lets the installer register the application as trusted for that user.

  As a developer distributing a locally run SWF file by way of an installer application, you can have the installer application add a configuration file to the User Flash Player Trust directory, granting full privileges to the file that you are distributing. Even in this situation, the User Flash Player Trust directory file is considered a user control, because a user action (installation) initiates it.

  There is also a Global Flash Player Trust directory, used by the administrative user or installers to register an application for all users of a computer (see Administrator controls).