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Article #3856Re: Directories and Password Protection.
From: Simon Carter
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 00:00
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Adam Currey wrote: > > On 29 Feb 1996 01:33:05 GMT, jason97@shore.net (Don'tTreadOnMe) wrote: > > >Hello, > > > > Does anyone know how to make certain directories inaccessible > >without a password. I'm trying t make sure the kids don't get into stuff > >they should not be in. Thanks > > > > jason97@shore.net > > Another alternative is to use a menu program with half decent security. Try Launch, see http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~simonc/launch.html for information. It allows both authority levels and passwords. Authority levels prevent users from even seeing menu items that they don't have the clearance for (and hence they cannot run them). You can set up Launch to automatically log in to a "kid" account with low authority, the kids never even see the login screen. You can logout of the "kid" account and re-login as yourself, "supervisor", with a higher authority level. It can be found on garbo and simtel (see below), and other ftp sites worldwide. Simon -- Simon Carter Home: 14 Canterbury Rd, Heathmont, Victoria 3135, Australia TUSC Computer Systems Pty Ltd Email: sac@tusc.com.au 666 Doncaster Road Voice: 613 8240-2222 Doncaster 3105 Fax: 613 9840-2277 Victoria, AUSTRALIA WWW: http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~simonc Launch (_The_ PC menu program) is available via my home page, garbo/pc/menu/launch30.zip and simtel/msdos/menu/lmenu30.zip
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,c62afe7bb2540ff X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: f53ba,c62afe7bb2540ff X-Google-Attributes: gidf53ba,public X-Google-Thread: 1674b9,c62afe7bb2540ff X-Google-Attributes: gid1674b9,public X-Google-Thread: f71eb,4c4b851412319ff X-Google-Attributes: gidf71eb,public X-Google-Thread: 111d31,c62afe7bb2540ff X-Google-Attributes: gid111d31,public From: Simon Carter <sac@tusc.com.au> Subject: Re: Directories and Password Protection. Date: 1996/03/12 Message-ID: <31450A00.B0F@tusc.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 142341850 references: <4cd28l$87b@widow.nla.gov.au> <4dd93u$m6e$1@sydney.DIALix.oz.au> <7TABeDAkv$+wEweU@rivdell.demon.co.uk> <4e6i8a$99d@cloner3.netcom.com> <4e9i8k$ufe@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca> <4ej1c5$h0l@kannews.ca.newbridge.com> <31111f73.6461157@204.96.200.6> <4f2oms$naj@news1.inlink.com> <4fhd2i$ej1@jaxnet.jaxnet.com> <4fpls1$h3j@sleepy.inch.com> <4g3ino$r8e@news.aloha.com> <4g5ena$86k@news.azstarnet.com> <4gg176$ntc@mserv.wizvax.net> <Dn7Ex2.2s9@mccc.edu> <4h2voh$fr9@shore.shore.net> <4i2j8i$2ri@oznet07.ozemail.com.au> to: Adam Currey <curreya@ozemail.com.au> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: TUSC Computer Systems Pty Ltd mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted,comp.archives.msdos.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,aus.computers.ibm-pc x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.04 9000/887)