On Dec 13, 2010, at 2:17 PM, Yersinia wrote: > On 12/13/10 4:36 PM, John Carmonne wrote: >> On Dec 13, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Dan wrote: >> >>> At 9:44 AM -0800 12/12/2010, John Carmonne wrote: >>>> I want to password protect certain HDD's in my G5 PM Dual 2.7 It has 5 >>>> drives and I want to block access to three of them. >>>> Can I do this? >>> Block access to whom/what? and for what purpose? >>> >> If I let people use my computer I don't want them to have access to all the >> HDD's on the particular machine. It's easy to do it with an external, just >> turn if off but an internal is different. > > Curiously, can't you do a Get Info on the HDDs you don't want others to use > and set the permissions for "no access" (except for yourself, of course?) Or > if there are particular people to whom you habitually grant access to your > computer, make accounts for them and set it up so only YOUR account can > access those HDDs you want to keep private for yourself only -- or set up a > generic account for 'anyone who wants to use my G5' to which you give them > the password, and from which those HDDs are not accessible? > Well I want others to be able to use my account but be restricted to certain drives, I need a solution similar to the password requirement to install software. John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA Sent from my MBP
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