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From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hard disk locking utilities
Message-ID: <425@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Date: 20 Jun 89 16:29:53 GMT
References: <12172@netnews.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg)
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In article <12172@netnews.upenn.edu> pakman@scrolls.wharton.upenn.edu (David B. Pakman) writes:
>I am setting up an SE/30 lab utilizing AppleShare.  The SE/30's
>are equipped with 40MB internal HD's and I am experimenting
>with using them exclusively  as start-up disks and then preventing
>their use by the user.

The hard disk software SilverLining from LaCie will put passwords on
disks and can make them read-only.  The problem with this is that Macs
don't work very well with write locked system volumes.  (Some programs
simply won't run.)

Maybe you should instead use ResEdit (warning: dangerious program if
you don't know what you are doing) and make the system folder
invisible.  You will still have to go around regularly and remove
other stuff which will accumulate and also replace the system folder
now and then, but the users will get a much nicer machine to use.

Kent Borg
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