shankar@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Subash Shankar) (09/26/89)
I'm looking for some utilities for certain functions.
1 - Password protection on folders, so you can lock out access to
certain folders and/or disks. I don't need anything fancy or
unbreakable - just something that will keep a computer novice
from accessing files.
2 - SCSI.hacker, or any other program that allows selecting interleaves
for formatting hard drives. I've picked up scsi.hacker off the
standard ftp sites, but none of them unpack correctly. If anybody
can mail me this program, I'd really appreciate it.
3 - An utility that allows from booting off either partition off a
hard disk. Ideal when you want to keep system5.0 and 4.0 both
around for compatibility reasons.
Thanks.
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Subash Shankar Honeywell Systems & Research Center
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shankar@src.honeywell.com srcsip!shankarKMILES@CC.USU.EDU ("Kurt Miles, VAX Consultant") (09/27/89)
>On Mon, 25 Sep 89 20:27:18 GMT Subash Shankar said: >I'm looking for some utilities for certain functions. > >1 - Password protection on folders, so you can lock out access to > certain folders and/or disks. I don't need anything fancy or > unbreakable - just something that will keep a computer novice > from accessing files. > 2 deleted >3 - An utility that allows from booting off either partition off a > hard disk. Ideal when you want to keep system5.0 and 4.0 both > around for compatibility reasons. > >Thanks. If you find them, I would be interested in a copy myself. Thanks ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Kurt Miles | GreyMan ------> and the <----- DRAGON KMILES@USU (Bitnet) | ...... remember, sometimes the DRAGON wins! KMILES@CC.USU.EDU (Internet) | ------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Doctoral Student in Instructional Technology at Utah State University "Dissertation? Doesn't that come after dinner? I like strawberry shortcake" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
blochowi@rt5.cs.wisc.edu (Jason Blochowiak) (09/27/89)
In article <8909262247.aa05970@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> KMILES@CC.USU.EDU ("Kurt Miles, VAX Consultant") writes: >>On Mon, 25 Sep 89 20:27:18 GMT Subash Shankar said: >>I'm looking for some utilities for certain functions. >> >>1 - Password protection on folders, so you can lock out access to >> certain folders and/or disks. I don't need anything fancy or >> unbreakable - just something that will keep a computer novice >> from accessing files. >If you find them, I would be interested in a copy myself. Well, for the first one, it wouldn't be too difficult to write a program that would scramble a file based on a key, and then unscramble it later. You could just scramble a directory, and then when you wanted to use the files (or subdirectories), you'd just unscramble the thing. Of course, this isn't exactly transparent... I think that to do that transparently would be a MAJOR pain, as you'd have to go mucking about in the OS, and at that point, you might as well make it fairly secure, as it wouldn't be all that much more work... -- Jason Blochowiak - back at school (again). blochowi@garfield.cs.wisc.edu or jason@madnix.UUCP "What's up pruneface?" - Bugs Bunny in the year 2000
reeder@reed.UUCP (Doug Reeder) (09/29/89)
In article <32471@srcsip.UUCP> shankar@src.honeywell.com (Subash Shankar) writes: > >I'm looking for some utilities for certain functions. > >1 - Password protection on folders, so you can lock out access to > certain folders and/or disks. I don't need anything fancy or > unbreakable - just something that will keep a computer novice > from accessing files. You need something which allows you to set the access bits on a file or folder (i.e. that makes the MLI SET_FILE_INFO call) For full access, set the access byte to $C3, for standard "locked" $01, to disable reading set it to $00. Note that disabling reads on directories can create interesting situations where you can read a file but not its directory entry. Someone out there must have a simple utiliy to set the file info on files. If you have it, please post it. -- Doug Reeder USENET: ...!tektronix!reed!reeder Box 722 Reed College BITNET: reeder@reed.BITNET Portland, OR 97202 from ARPA: tektronix!reed!reeder@berkeley.EDU (503) 777-1551 "A blaster can point two ways." -Salvor Hardin