mcmac@hubcap.clemson.edu (Scott McAlister) (02/14/91)
Sorry, I know there was some recent discussion on this, but I didn't pay attention to it earlier. Let me describe the situation: I supervise a Mac Lab here at Clemson and we have a problem of students putting unauthorized software on the hard drives, and they sometimes make it difficult to find the software (hiding within folders). It hasn't been much of problem having the lab operators go thru each folder to find the software, but now it is. What I want to do is to partition the hard drives, with one partition containing all of our legitimate software, write-protected. And the other partition open for the students to save to. This way, just one large dump to the trash can deletes all of the unauthorized stuff. I have just looked at DiskLock, by Brian Bechtel, but it locks the startup disk. I want to avoid this since most of the programs today are writing pref files and such to the system folder, which I believe will create some problems if the disk is read-only. Any ideas will be appreciated and I'm not limited to public domain software, so commercial will be fine. Scott McAlister mcmac@hubcap.clemson.edu Clemson University
goldis@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Al Goldis) (02/15/91)
From article <13100@hubcap.clemson.edu>, by mcmac@hubcap.clemson.edu (Scott McAlister): [...] > Let me describe the situation: > I supervise a Mac Lab here at Clemson and we have a problem of students > putting unauthorized software on the hard drives, and they sometimes make > it difficult to find the software (hiding within folders). It hasn't been > much of problem having the lab operators go thru each folder to find the > software, but now it is. > What I want to do is to partition the hard drives, with one partition > containing all of our legitimate software, write-protected. And the other > partition open for the students to save to. This way, just one large dump > to the trash can deletes all of the unauthorized stuff. We have an almost identical situation here. We've been very happy with Hard Disk Partition(tm) from FWB Software. In addition to what you've described above, it can also copy-protect the software on a partition. I'd be happy to provide more specific details on request. -- Al Goldis goldis@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu Weeg Computing Center, The University of Iowa