Re: Password Directories

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From: Stephen Quan
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 02:31

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Mr Bri Fawthrop (g89f2900@giraffe.ru.ac.za) writes :

>Can any help me by any small chance I am wanting to know if it is at
>all possible to password or security protect a directory.
>I guess it must be possible since DR.DOS 6 can password protect
>sub-directories and programs.
>But I want to password protect a complete directory like E: of D:
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.

What it looks like what you are wanting to do is password protect
a complete _drive_ like C: or D:, right?  Just trying to make the
problem look clearer.

If you do have hold of Digital Research DOS 6, you could try
password protecting the root directory (known as C:\ and D:\ in
your examples).  Failing that you can try wildcards in the password
protect, eg. C:\*.*.  I have tried none of these on Dr Dos 6 myself.

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Stephen Quan (quan@sol.surv.utas.edu.au)      Tel : 002 202844 (local)
Research Fellow, Computer Scientist,          Fax : 002 240282 (local)
Centre for Spatial Information Systems,       Tel : 61 02 202844
University of Tasmania, Australia.            Fax : 61 02 240282

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