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From: smcguire@eagle.mit.edu (Scott McGuire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Password programs
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Date: 14 Nov 90 21:00:22 GMT
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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