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Article #30317Re: password protection on folders?
From: David Reeck
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 1988 00:55
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 1988 00:55
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In article <4255@ut-emx.UUCP> osmigo@emx.UUCP (Ron Morgan) writes: >[Eisuke Muroga asks about password protection for folders] > >This is something that's long overdue. MacSafe et. al. are nice but they are >overkill to a point; practically "finder replacements" for all their com- >plexity. What is needed is a simple, quick-and-dirty routine where one would >simply double-click on a folder, and it would ask for a password before it >zoomed open. Simple as that. Of course, it would also have to work if the >folder were accessed from within an application. > Here Here! (Hear Hear?) I have needed one of these ever since I got room mates. (ack). I'd rather not have some kid from down stairs flipping through my folders, finding res-edit and altering applications on my disk (which is not an unlikely possibility, considering the kid who lived down stairs.) I'll see if I can't get a little help on this from the programmer here (the real one, not a student programmer ;) ). No promises tho.... Dave Student Programmer !tektronix!reed!lclark!reeck
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!lclark!reeck From: reeck@lclark.UUCP (David Reeck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: password protection on folders? Message-ID: <268@lclark.UUCP> Date: 19 Jul 88 00:55:47 GMT References: <8400014@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <4255@ut-emx.UUCP> Reply-To: reeck@lclark.UUCP (David Reeck) Organization: Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR Lines: 20