myers@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Franklin Myers) (11/14/90)
I co-manage a mac lab that has a only one SE containing a hard drive. I would like to be able to restrict access to certain files and folders according to their "security level." What commercial/shareware/freeware programs are available and what features do they have? Thanks in advance, Frank P.S. please reply to myers@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr) (11/14/90)
In article <32819@netnews.upenn.edu> myers@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Franklin Myers) writes: >I co-manage a mac lab that has a only one SE containing a hard drive. >I would like to be able to restrict access to certain files and folders >according to their "security level." What commercial/shareware/freeware >programs are available and what features do they have? > >Thanks in advance, >Frank >P.S. please reply to myers@eniac.seas.upenn.edu If only you were on a network... then you could load up Singleshare or AppleShare or something similar and create groups and users, and restrict access at will... The only thing I can think of is the "DiskLock" program; not only does it lock the WHOLE hard drive (you enter a password when you boot, and you can't "cheat" by booting off a floppy) but it also has a "workstation locker" where you can set a password to re-access your Macintosh when you have to step away to go to the bathroom, coffee break, etc. and it also has Folder Lock, where you can password-protect folders. ______________________________________________________________________________ Donald Burr, c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.edu | "I have a seperate mail-address University of California, Berkeley | for flames and other such nega- Majoring in Computer Science | tive msgs; it's called /dev/null."
jkain@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeff Kain) (11/15/90)
Another good CDEV is macPassword. It allows you two levels of
security- if you know the password you're given access to everything.
If you don't have a password you can log in as "guest" where certain
folders can be protected.
On our 'guest' setup, we have the applications moved out onto the
desktop with all of their associated folders locked. We also have the
system folder locked for guest startup. The program also has a screen
-saver with optional password protection upon wakeup, and virus
detection.
Jeff Kain
jkain@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
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-Edgar Allen Poe / Bart Simpsonsmcguire@eagle.mit.edu (Scott McGuire) (11/15/90)
In article <32819@netnews.upenn.edu> myers@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Franklin Myers) writes: > I co-manage a mac lab that has a only one SE containing a hard drive. > I would like to be able to restrict access to certain files and folders > according to their "security level." What commercial/shareware/freeware > programs are available and what features do they have? > > Thanks in advance, > Frank Here in my lab we use Empower II to protect the software (including the System Folder) from unwanted access. Empower II (there is also an Empower I and I don't think it includes these features) works exactly like Appleshare does for a server: you can set three sorts of priviledges for each folder (see files in folder, see folders in folder, make changes to stuff in folder) for three different sets: the owner, a group, or any user. You can also supposedly encode every folder which has its priviledges restricted so that they can't be copied, but we haven't tried that yet. I offer this advice with one caveat: we have had what appear to be Empower-related crashes on our protected machines. I would be interested in hearing from anyone else who suspects they have had such problems as well, and what they did about them. Empower II is sold commercially by Magna Software, 2540 North First Street, Suite 302, San Jose, California 95131, phone # (408) 433-5467. Price: $296 per copy, although volume discounts are available. --Scott McGuire smcguire@eagle.mit.edu
jmv@sppy00.UUCP (J. Vickroy +1 614 764 4343) (11/20/90)
In article <jkain.658606772@silver> jkain@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeff Kain) writes:
=>Another good CDEV is macPassword. It allows you two levels of
^^^^^^^^^^^
Is this a commercial product? If not, where can I get it?
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