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From: meldal@ithink.Stanford.EDU (Sigurd Meldal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac Folder-level Security
Message-ID: <98@ithink.stanford.edu>
Date: 3 May 90 21:52:39 GMT
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Sender: meldal@ithink.STANFORD.EDU (Sigurd Meldal)
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In article <29411@ut-emx.UUCP> kling@ut-emx.UUCP (Kenneth A. Klingensmith) writes:
>
>I have an unpleasant problem... I have a MacII that is used by office
>mates when I am not actually planted in front of it that has "sensitive"
>data files from Excel and Word on it.  
...
>but I prefer to simply have "lockable" folders on my hard disk.
>
>Is there such a utility available, either in the PD or commercially?

There are a number of utilities, ranging in sophistication from
password-guarding to DES encryption.

Your needs could probably be addressed by buying Hard Disk Partition (or
some other soft partitioning tool) which lets you define parts of your
disk as virtual disks ("partitions"), which can be password protected.
You would mount them when needed using a DA (giving a password), and
dismount when you leave your workstation. The proce for HDP is <$100,
I believe.

Clever users can still get at your files, but they have to work a bit
in order to do it. You will certainly preclude idle browsing by
curious colleagues.

-- Sigurd