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An easy way to password-protect certain folders
Authored by: timcrawf on Dec 05, '03 01:14:37AM

How does this give any more protection than just keeping things in folders in your user folder. These are already password protected.
If this is not enough, go with the comment above and use an encrypted disk image.



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An easy way to password-protect certain folders
Authored by: cybergoober on Dec 05, '03 09:52:35AM

Well if you had multiple users accessing one shared account, rather than each user having their own login account, this would be semi-useful.



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An easy way to password-protect certain folders
Authored by: timcrawf on Dec 06, '03 02:22:30AM

so the tip is for people who don't understand OS X?
or at least the multiple user aspect.



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An easy way to password-protect certain folders
Authored by: mcritz on Dec 06, '03 07:41:04PM

Let's say you get up from your work computer and are gone for a few minutes. You forget to log out or switch to "Login Window" screen. Your password-protected screen saver doesn't activate for 15 minutes, but you can be sure that noone has read your payroll recommendations while you went to the GM's office because you had that extra little bit of protection on your "Semi-Critical Data" folder. Let's agree that it's good to have lots of security options rather than just a few.
That being said, I don't recommend changing the ownership of files unless you know exactly what you're doing. Also, truly top secret files should be encrypted in a Disk Image.



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