On Dec 13, 2010, at 9:46 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
On Dec 13, 2010, at 2:39 PM, John Carmonne wrote:
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.
That's exactly what Yersinia and I have been talking about. If you
set the drive to use permissions then you can make your user account
the owner and set the permissions as you'd like them, including
restricting other users to have no access.
Clark Martin
And it works. My family use computer "fast switching" has partitions
for each user so that no one else can save stuff to 'their' drive
without Admin level password. Just looking, I believe I can set it to
'no access'. click on HD, get info.
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