Re: Password protect
At 9:44 AM -0800 12/12/2010, John Carmonne wrote: I want to password protect certain HDD's in my G5 PM Dual 2.7 It has 5 drives and I want to block access to three of them. Can I do this? Block access to whom/what? and for what purpose? Are you talking about blocking access from other non-admin users or ? I put sensitive data in encrypted sparse disk images. That way you have to have enough permission to get to the disk image file in the first place *plus* you have to have the password to mount the thing. (Helps to NOT stash the password in Keychain, of course). - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Password protect
On Dec 13, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Dan wrote: > At 9:44 AM -0800 12/12/2010, John Carmonne wrote: >> I want to password protect certain HDD's in my G5 PM Dual 2.7 It has 5 >> drives and I want to block access to three of them. >> Can I do this? > > Block access to whom/what? and for what purpose? > If I let people use my computer I don't want them to have access to all the HDD's on the particular machine. It's easy to do it with an external, just turn if off but an internal is different. John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA Sent from my MBP -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Password protect
On Dec 13, 2010, at 1:36 PM, John Carmonne wrote: > > On Dec 13, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Dan wrote: > >> At 9:44 AM -0800 12/12/2010, John Carmonne wrote: >>> I want to password protect certain HDD's in my G5 PM Dual 2.7 It has 5 >>> drives and I want to block access to three of them. >>> Can I do this? >> >> Block access to whom/what? and for what purpose? >> > If I let people use my computer I don't want them to have access to all the > HDD's on the particular machine. It's easy to do it with an external, just > turn if off but an internal is different. Set up permissions as appropriate. You'll need to do Get Info on each drive and ensure they are set to use permissions. Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Password protect
On 12/13/10 4:36 PM, John Carmonne wrote: On Dec 13, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Dan wrote: At 9:44 AM -0800 12/12/2010, John Carmonne wrote: I want to password protect certain HDD's in my G5 PM Dual 2.7 It has 5 drives and I want to block access to three of them. Can I do this? Block access to whom/what? and for what purpose? If I let people use my computer I don't want them to have access to all the HDD's on the particular machine. It's easy to do it with an external, just turn if off but an internal is different. Curiously, can't you do a Get Info on the HDDs you don't want others to use and set the permissions for "no access" (except for yourself, of course?) Or if there are particular people to whom you habitually grant access to your computer, make accounts for them and set it up so only YOUR account can access those HDDs you want to keep private for yourself only -- or set up a generic account for 'anyone who wants to use my G5' to which you give them the password, and from which those HDDs are not accessible? ~Yersinia. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Password protect
You could place a pasword protected disk image that is the size of the hard drive, on the hard drive and put everything in there. It's essentially a pasword protected hard drive -Jonas -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Password protect
On Dec 13, 2010, at 2:17 PM, Yersinia wrote: > On 12/13/10 4:36 PM, John Carmonne wrote: >> On Dec 13, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Dan wrote: >> >>> At 9:44 AM -0800 12/12/2010, John Carmonne wrote: I want to password protect certain HDD's in my G5 PM Dual 2.7 It has 5 drives and I want to block access to three of them. Can I do this? >>> Block access to whom/what? and for what purpose? >>> >> If I let people use my computer I don't want them to have access to all the >> HDD's on the particular machine. It's easy to do it with an external, just >> turn if off but an internal is different. > > Curiously, can't you do a Get Info on the HDDs you don't want others to use > and set the permissions for "no access" (except for yourself, of course?) Or > if there are particular people to whom you habitually grant access to your > computer, make accounts for them and set it up so only YOUR account can > access those HDDs you want to keep private for yourself only -- or set up a > generic account for 'anyone who wants to use my G5' to which you give them > the password, and from which those HDDs are not accessible? > Well I want others to be able to use my account but be restricted to certain drives, I need a solution similar to the password requirement to install software. John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA Sent from my MBP -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Password protect
On Dec 13, 2010, at 2:39 PM, John Carmonne wrote: > > On Dec 13, 2010, at 2:17 PM, Yersinia wrote: > >> On 12/13/10 4:36 PM, John Carmonne wrote: >>> On Dec 13, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Dan wrote: >>> At 9:44 AM -0800 12/12/2010, John Carmonne wrote: > I want to password protect certain HDD's in my G5 PM Dual 2.7 It has 5 > drives and I want to block access to three of them. > Can I do this? Block access to whom/what? and for what purpose? >>> If I let people use my computer I don't want them to have access to all >>> the HDD's on the particular machine. It's easy to do it with an external, >>> just turn if off but an internal is different. >> >> Curiously, can't you do a Get Info on the HDDs you don't want others to use >> and set the permissions for "no access" (except for yourself, of course?) Or >> if there are particular people to whom you habitually grant access to your >> computer, make accounts for them and set it up so only YOUR account can >> access those HDDs you want to keep private for yourself only -- or set up a >> generic account for 'anyone who wants to use my G5' to which you give them >> the password, and from which those HDDs are not accessible? >> > Well I want others to be able to use my account but be restricted to certain > drives, I need a solution similar to the password requirement to install > software. That's exactly what Yersinia and I have been talking about. If you set the drive to use permissions then you can make your user account the owner and set the permissions as you'd like them, including restricting other users to have no access. Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Password protect
At 2:39 PM -0800 12/13/2010, John Carmonne wrote: Well I want others to be able to use my account but be restricted to certain drives, I need a solution similar to the password requirement to install software. Do a Get Info on your boot volume and examine the permissions. Notice that it's owned by system and that others have only read access. Take away that read access, and you no gots access into the drive without authenticating... Do the same to those drives you want to protect. The key is to make sure YOU don't own the drive! That way it takes authentication to change the permissions back... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Password protect
On Dec 13, 2010, at 8:02 PM, Dan wrote: > At 2:39 PM -0800 12/13/2010, John Carmonne wrote: >> Well I want others to be able to use my account but be restricted to certain >> drives, I need a solution similar to the password requirement to install >> software. > > Do a Get Info on your boot volume and examine the permissions. Notice that > it's owned by system and that others have only read access. Take away that > read access, and you no gots access into the drive without authenticating... > > Do the same to those drives you want to protect. > > The key is to make sure YOU don't own the drive! That way it takes > authentication to change the permissions back... > > - Dan. Thanks Dan. John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA Sent from my MBP -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Password protect
On 2010/12/13 14:51, Clark Martin so eloquently wrote: Set up permissions as appropriate. You'll need to do Get Info on each drive and ensure they are set to use permissions. Just thought I'd mention this in case some list members are unaware. When you or an application create a new folder at the root level of your user folder (this is where your Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Library, Movies, Music, Pictures, Public, Sites folders reside) by default the new folder will be viewable to everyone. So for example if you are using Dropbox in it's default location the contents are visible to all users of that Mac unless you change it's permissions. Newly created folders in your User folder will have these permissions: yourusername (Me) Read & Write staff Read only everyone Read only You want to change them to: yourusername (Me) Read & Write everyone No access Tina -- iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB DDR OS 10.4.11 Power Mac June 04 2GHz G5DP 8GB RAM GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL 256MB OS 10.5.8 23" CD PowerBook G4 15" HiRes DLSD 1.67GHz G4 2GB RAM Radeon 9700 128MB DDR OS 10.5.8 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Password protect
On Dec 13, 2010, at 3:39 PM, John Carmonne wrote: >> Curiously, can't you do a Get Info on the HDDs you don't want others to use >> and set the permissions for "no access" (except for yourself, of course?) Or >> if there are particular people to whom you habitually grant access to your >> computer, make accounts for them and set it up so only YOUR account can >> access those HDDs you want to keep private for yourself only -- or set up a >> generic account for 'anyone who wants to use my G5' to which you give them >> the password, and from which those HDDs are not accessible? >> > Well I want others to be able to use my account but be restricted to certain > drives, I need a solution similar to the password requirement to install > software. Absent encrypting the drives with another password, you cannot do this. This defeats the entire purpose of having user accounts. The PROPER way to do this is to create an account for those folks and then share what you want shared, rather than try to restrict what they can see. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Password protect
On Dec 14, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Well I want others to be able to use my account but be restricted to certain drives, I need a solution similar to the password requirement to install software. Absent encrypting the drives with another password, you cannot do this. This defeats the entire purpose of having user accounts. The PROPER way to do this is to create an account for those folks and then share what you want shared, rather than try to restrict what they can see. My main company accounts along with design drawings are on the office machines, I can keep pending product files on an external and just unplug them it's just I thought if I could password protect those internal drives instead of the constant bother of updating access on user accounts life would be simpler. Dan's fix did what I need it may be a little crude but effective and easy for me to use. JOHN CARMONNE Yorba Linda USA From TiBook 867 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Password protect
On Dec 13, 2010, at 9:46 PM, Clark Martin wrote: On Dec 13, 2010, at 2:39 PM, John Carmonne wrote: On Dec 13, 2010, at 2:17 PM, Yersinia wrote: On 12/13/10 4:36 PM, John Carmonne wrote: On Dec 13, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Dan wrote: At 9:44 AM -0800 12/12/2010, John Carmonne wrote: I want to password protect certain HDD's in my G5 PM Dual 2.7 It has 5 drives and I want to block access to three of them. Can I do this? Block access to whom/what? and for what purpose? If I let people use my computer I don't want them to have access to all the HDD's on the particular machine. It's easy to do it with an external, just turn if off but an internal is different. Curiously, can't you do a Get Info on the HDDs you don't want others to use and set the permissions for "no access" (except for yourself, of course?) Or if there are particular people to whom you habitually grant access to your computer, make accounts for them and set it up so only YOUR account can access those HDDs you want to keep private for yourself only -- or set up a generic account for 'anyone who wants to use my G5' to which you give them the password, and from which those HDDs are not accessible? Well I want others to be able to use my account but be restricted to certain drives, I need a solution similar to the password requirement to install software. That's exactly what Yersinia and I have been talking about. If you set the drive to use permissions then you can make your user account the owner and set the permissions as you'd like them, including restricting other users to have no access. Clark Martin And it works. My family use computer "fast switching" has partitions for each user so that no one else can save stuff to 'their' drive without Admin level password. Just looking, I believe I can set it to 'no access'. click on HD, get info. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Password protect
On Dec 13, 2010, at 9:46 PM, Clark Martin wrote: On Dec 13, 2010, at 2:39 PM, John Carmonne wrote: On Dec 13, 2010, at 2:17 PM, Yersinia wrote: On 12/13/10 4:36 PM, John Carmonne wrote: On Dec 13, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Dan wrote: At 9:44 AM -0800 12/12/2010, John Carmonne wrote: I want to password protect certain HDD's in my G5 PM Dual 2.7 It has 5 drives and I want to block access to three of them. Can I do this? Block access to whom/what? and for what purpose? If I let people use my computer I don't want them to have access to all the HDD's on the particular machine. It's easy to do it with an external, just turn if off but an internal is different. Curiously, can't you do a Get Info on the HDDs you don't want others to use and set the permissions for "no access" (except for yourself, of course?) Or if there are particular people to whom you habitually grant access to your computer, make accounts for them and set it up so only YOUR account can access those HDDs you want to keep private for yourself only -- or set up a generic account for 'anyone who wants to use my G5' to which you give them the password, and from which those HDDs are not accessible? Well I want others to be able to use my account but be restricted to certain drives, I need a solution similar to the password requirement to install software. That's exactly what Yersinia and I have been talking about. If you set the drive to use permissions then you can make your user account the owner and set the permissions as you'd like them, including restricting other users to have no access. Clark Martin And it works. My family use computer "fast switching" has partitions for each user so that no one else can save stuff to 'their' drive without Admin level password. Just looking, I believe I can set it to 'no access'. click on HD, get info. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Password protect
On Dec 15, 2010, at 9:58 AM, Jeff Bequette wrote: > And it works. My family use computer "fast switching" has partitions for > each user so that no one else can save stuff to 'their' drive without Admin > level password. Just looking, I believe I can set it to 'no access'. click > on HD, get info. This works by default with multiple accounts. Fast switching has nothing to do with it. You don't need to take any action to prevent user's home directories from access (even as an admin user). The only available directories to other users are Public (which is read-only, except for the drop box, which is write-only...you can put files in, but you cannot get in there to see what's there) and Sites (also read-only, which is where user-level websites are saved. Sites that are http://computer.domain.com/~user/ ) There's no need whatsoever for separate partitions. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Password protect
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > This works by default with multiple accounts. Fast switching has nothing to > do with it. > You don't need to take any action to prevent user's home directories from > access > (even as an admin user). > > There's no need whatsoever for separate partitions. > With respect Bruce, I think you might be completely missing the point, . Why use a mechanism designed to separate user data and other settings when you come up with your own mildly convoluted ad-hoc exploit of the file system permissions to probably achieve sorta the same purpose? Where's the fun in that? ;-) -irrational john -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Password protect
On Dec 15, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Dec 15, 2010, at 9:58 AM, Jeff Bequette wrote: > >> And it works. My family use computer "fast switching" has partitions for >> each user so that no one else can save stuff to 'their' drive without Admin >> level password. Just looking, I believe I can set it to 'no access'. click >> on HD, get info. > > This works by default with multiple accounts. Fast switching has nothing to > do with it. You don't need to take any action to prevent user's home > directories from access (even as an admin user). The only available > directories to other users are Public (which is read-only, except for the > drop box, which is write-only...you can put files in, but you cannot get in > there to see what's there) and Sites (also read-only, which is where > user-level websites are saved. Sites that are > http://computer.domain.com/~user/ ) > > There's no need whatsoever for separate partitions. Ack, except for files and folders created at the root of the user's folder by the user. Desktop and documents, etc are not readable. I take this back, partitions may be necessary. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Password protect?
Greetings Jeffery, Jeffery after you have created (formatted) the disk and mounted it on the desktop, highlight the disk and then do a get info. When the disk info window appears click on the "Lock" and enter your administrator name and password. At the bottom of the info window you will see a pain that says "Sharing & Permissions" You will see the access that everyone has to that disk and you can make the changes that you feel necessary. Under the "everyone" name you will find a privilege of "Write Only (Drop Box) and that is the setting you want. Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?º?ø On Nov 2, 8:06 am, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > I need to make a dvd disk, with one file on it…. what I need to do, is make > the file readable by anyone, but nobody can "drag the file to the desktop" > without a password.. is this possible? > > Jeffrey Engle > Kamiah, Idaho 83536 > macgu...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Password protect?
On Nov 3, 2011, at 10:27 AM, gifutiger wrote: > Greetings Jeffery, > > Jeffery after you have created (formatted) the disk and mounted it on > the desktop, highlight the disk and then do a get info. > When the disk info window appears click on the "Lock" and enter your > administrator name and password. > At the bottom of the info window you will see a pain that says > "Sharing & Permissions" > You will see the access that everyone has to that disk and you can > make the changes that you feel necessary. > Under the "everyone" name you will find a privilege of "Write Only > (Drop Box) and that is the setting you want. > I'm thinking of making the file downloadable via dropbox… working on that right now. I'm trying to make a "download link" that I can give to anybody and it just starts the download to their computer… I think the copy protection is gonna get shelved for now. Jeffrey Engle Kamiah, Idaho 83536 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Password protect?
Il giorno 3-11-2011 18:33, Jeffrey Engle ha scritto: > I'm trying to make a "download link" that I can give to anybody and > it just starts the download to their computerŠ I think the copy protection is > gonna get shelved for now. I have been experiencing copy protection since the '80s. My experience so far has been this: - the copy protection is usually overcome by "unlawful" people (not allowed users); - the copy protection gets in the way of legit (allowed) users, creates troubles and piss them off. ;-) Just my 2 (euro)cents. :-) -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Password protect?
At 8:06 AM -0700 11/2/2011, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I need to make a dvd disk, with one file on itŠ. what I need to do, is make the file readable by anyone, but nobody can "drag the file to the desktop" without a password.. is this possible? No. If you can read a thing, you can save a thing. In the past, people have tried to limit access to data by various methods, such as invisibility, scrambling, or encryption; their theory being that the user will only be able to access the data using their special app - and if that app provides no method to save the data... But that's a total fail! People are *gasp* smart! They quickly realize that using a different app, or different access method, will work! At that point, the "protection" simply makes the provider seem stupid. At 10:33 AM -0700 11/3/2011, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I'm thinking of making the file downloadable via dropboxŠ working on that right now. I'm trying to make a "download link" that I can give to anybody and it just starts the download to their computerŠ I think the copy protection is gonna get shelved for now. Dropbox's public links work great for that. The file is essentially only accessible to the person to whom you send the url. eg: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/610326/penguin-lust.gif Dropbox also supports a "sharable link", but IMO it's a PITA. It creates a silly multi-step process by providing a link to a web page that contains a link the file, that the user then has to download in some way. The "public link" method is far superior, IMO. HTH, - Dan. -- - Be Prepared! http://www.bt.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
