wardwell@uvm-gen.UUCP (Les Wardwell) (05/03/89)
Hello, I need to find out some information on software security. Specifically, how to keep someone from copying via the finder. I believe most security software locks or protects disk drives and volumes, but my situation needs are to have a user have read-write access to a drive, but not walk out the door with some of the drives contents. I thought I got wind of a DA/INIT that locked the icon positions on the desktop so that dragging and copying via the finder were disabled. Does this animal exist? Also, I believe this situation would be less intimidating than using a muzzle. Any suggestions or information would be helpful. Thanks in advance, Les Wardwell wardwell@uvm-gen.uvm.edu
mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) (05/03/89)
In article <1166@uvm-gen.UUCP>, wardwell@uvm-gen.UUCP (Les Wardwell) writes: > I need to find out some information on software security. Specifically, > how to keep someone from copying via the finder. I believe most security > software locks or protects disk drives and volumes, but my situation needs > are to have a user have read-write access to a drive, but not walk out the > door with some of the drives contents. AppleShare (2.0) lets you do this by having a "copy protect" feature that can be turned on for any file that prevents the Finder from being able to copy that file. I would assume that this doesn't help you if you are talking about local drives. > I thought I got wind of a DA/INIT > that locked the icon positions on the desktop so that dragging and copying > via the finder were disabled. Does this animal exist? Also, I believe this > situation would be less intimidating than using a muzzle. Any suggestions or > information would be helpful. > There is a little cdev called Guard Dog that does just that, but you can bypass the locking of the desktop by press a modifier key while you drag (key is choosable from the control panel; chose from Command, Option, etc.). Look for a copy in the various archives. Maybe it could be modified to look for some non-existant key? -Michael -- Michael Niehaus UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!mithomas Apple Student Rep ARPA: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu Ball State University AppleLink: ST0374 (from UUCP: st0374@applelink.apple.com)