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From: ddg@intuit.intuit.COM (David DelGreco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Can I keep files secure from the Supervisor?
Message-ID: <381@intuit.intuit.COM>
Date: 14 Jan 91 02:02:27 GMT
Organization: Intuit Int., Menlo Park, CA
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peterj@rosevax.Rosemount.COM (Peter Juhl) writes:

>We have a legal department in our company that wants to put its
>users on an existing Novell network. They don't want the hassles
>of administrating their own network. The problem is that some of
>their data is very sensitive, and they don't want anybody outside
>their own department to see it.

>Is there a way, short of manual encryption that they can secure their
>data from the LAN Administrator?

There is not a way to keep files secure from the Administrator or someone
with supervisor priveleges.  It would not be a good idea to support this
feature anyway, since you run the risk of locking yourself out of your
own house, so to speak.

You might be able to automate the encryption process, though.  There are
several good encryption programs around (PCSecure, in the PCTools package,
is my favorite) which can be run from a command line.  You could write an
executable or batch file which would unencrypt a file as you go into the
application, and re-encrypt it when you exit.

I realize that's limited, but your only other choice is to have the
department administer their own server, or agree on an admin they can
trust.

David DelGreco
ddg@intuit.com