bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) (08/18/89)
I am the administrator of an AppleShare file server, and I'm afraid that
as soon as I let users have the run of the system, they'll find a way to screw
it up royally.
My question is: Is there any way to prevent anyone from making changes to the
desktop, while still letting them have complete control over their folders?
I'm afraid that people will change the default icon view of the main level
of the HD80's hard drive to a 'View by Name' or 'View by Icon', thereby
confusing people. Or they might decide to rearrange the folders in the window
so they can find theirs more easily, but everyone else won't be able to find
anything.Or they might accidentally drag their folders into other peoples'
folders and be unable to reach them.
If I set the Privileges for the hard drive to 'See Folders' and 'See Files' but
turn off 'Make Changes', that might solve my problem - unless that means that
users couldn't modify anything *under* the hard drive's directory (i. e. their
own folders!).
I don't know what to do here. Any advice would be appreciated.
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| Systems Engineering, NASA Space Station Freedom / General Electric WP3 |rewing@Apple.COM (Richard Ewing) (08/20/89)
Here's the way we do it. I'm assuming that you have a folder on Appleshare in which sits all of your user folders. If you want to prevent people from screwing up how this folder is presented to the user (ie., if you want "by text" instead of icons, or screen placement, etc.), go one level out and do a set priviledges on the folder holding the user folder. (I'm assuming that you are cureently logged in as "Custodian" to do this) From there, disable "Make changes" for everyone and group, and choose "apply". DO NOT CHOOSE "apply to all enclosed folders". Your users folder will now be protected from change. __________________________________________________________________________ |Disclaimer: Segmentation Fault: Core Dumped. | | | |Internet: REWING@APPLE.COM-----------------------Rick Ewing | |ApplelinkPE & MacNet Soon!------------------Apple Computer, Inc. | |Applelink: EWING--------------------100 Ashford Center North, Suite 100 | |Compu$erve: [76474,1732]--------------------Atlanta, GA 30338 | |GENIE: R.EWING1--------------------------TalkNet: (404) 393-9358 | |USENET: {amdahl,decwrl,sun,unisoft}!apple!rewing | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
dp22+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Bruce Pinkus) (08/20/89)
Hi...
Along these same lines.. Is there anyway to possibly have a hidden
file that a user would have change access to, but couldn't see and thus
couldn't delete??? I'm working on a multi-user database system and this
feature would allow much better security (Assuming of course that I could
simply access the file by name? ) Oh wait.. Would a Desk Accessory such
as Extras that allows file deletion ruin my day? Any help would be
very appreciated. Thanks..
Dave.
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