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Re: Directories and Password Protection.

#3856
From: Simon Carter
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
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Heathmont, Victoria 3135, Australia
TUSC Computer Systems Pty Ltd    Email: sac@tusc.com.au
666 Doncaster Road               Voice: 613 8240-2222
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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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From: Simon Carter <sac@tusc.com.au>
Subject: Re: Directories and Password Protection.
Date: 1996/03/12
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