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In article <1166@uvm-gen.UUCP>, wardwell@uvm-gen.UUCP (Les Wardwell) writes:
> I need to find out some information on software security.  Specifically,
> how to keep someone from copying via the finder.  I believe most security
> software locks or protects disk drives and volumes, but my situation needs
> are to have a user have read-write access to a drive, but not walk out the
> door with some of the drives contents.

AppleShare (2.0) lets you do this by having a "copy protect" feature that can
be turned on for any file that prevents the Finder from being able to copy
that file.  I would assume that this doesn't help you if you are talking
about local drives.

> I thought I got wind of a DA/INIT
> that locked the icon positions on the desktop so that dragging and copying 
> via the finder were disabled.  Does this animal exist? Also, I believe this
> situation would be less intimidating than using a muzzle. Any suggestions or 
> information would be helpful.
>

There is a little cdev called Guard Dog that does just that, but you can
bypass the locking of the desktop by press a modifier key while you drag
(key is choosable from the control panel; chose from Command, Option, etc.).
Look for a copy in the various archives.  Maybe it could be modified to
look for some non-existant key?
 
-Michael

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