a687@mindlink.UUCP (John N. Moore) (12/18/89)
I would like to have a student workstation with Mac11cX and hard drive that allows all(or portion?) of applications to be used but does not allow any programs to be copied. I know we can do this on a MacJanet type network but how can I do this on a single machine? Any ideas appreciated. John N. Moore Mac/Amiga user a687@Mindlink.uucp Instructional Design, Electronic Publishing, Hypermedia ..transparent technology for learning and communication.. Vancouver, Canada uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!JohnNMoore
ldg@yoda.byu.edu (12/19/89)
In <820@mindlink.UUCP>, John N. Moore (a687@mindlink.UUCP) writes: >I would like to have a student workstation with Mac11cX and hard drive that >allows all(or portion?) of applications to be used but does not allow any >programs to be copied... The method I saw being used here at BYU in one of the Mac labs was sort of hokey, but it would discourage the non-hacker types. All the files they wanted to protect from tampering (would also work for copying) were made invisible and left in the root directory. The students were issued a dinky program that could be used to launch these invisible applications. Anybody with MPW, ResEdit, FEdit, etc., could quickly and easily defeat this setup, but it slowed their problems down enough to make them managable. Lyle D. Gunderson N6KSZ CIS: 73760,2354 GEnie: L.GUNDERSON zebolskyd@acoust.byu.edu "Any technology without some attendant risk 350 CB / BYU / Provo, UT 84602 of misuse is probably trivial" --Loise Kohl