peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) (04/21/88)
A department here has a Mac and wants to prevent "unathorized" access.
As it is now, anybody could walk in and turn on the machine and access
the files on the hard disk. A short while ago someone posted an INIT
which asks for a password when booting and although this sounds ideal,
the security it appears to offer is easily bypassed by simply booting
with a floppy.
A long time ago when I had a Hyperdrive installed in my first Mac, I
was able to create volumes with passwords. The Jasmine they have does
not provide such a feature, nor do any other drives that I'm familiar
with lately. They, of course, just use multiple folders (as we all do).
Is there *any* way to protect folders from being opened by unauthorized
users. Any info would be *greatly* appreciated.
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Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst
Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121
UUCP: {uunet|watmath|utai|garfield}dalcs!aucs!Peter
BITNET: Peter@Acadia Internet: Peter%Acadia.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDUAngelo_C_Micheletti@cup.portal.com (05/23/88)
Rather than just using passwords, a much better and more secure technique is to encrypt those files that must be secured from "prying eyes". MASC, from Creativity Plus Software, is a program that does this very effectively. It runs on all Macs, runs under MF, is fast, efficient and unconditionally secure. Their phone number is 415-631-0883 or AppleLink (D1680).