Re: Password protection. Partitions? Folders?

[gudat@avalon.unizh.ch (gudat henrik)]

David Empson (dempson@actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
: In article <2vqhr7$mi9@eis.calstate.edu>,
: Greg R. Achenbach <gachenb@eis.calstate.edu> wrote:
: > 
: > I'm the principal of a school, and we just got our first hard drive a 
: > couple of months ago.  It's great.  My problem is that several people use 
: > this computer, but there are some things I would like to keep private.  I 
: > know I could keep the stuff on floppies that are locked up, but I would 
: > rather have the stuff on the HD.  I also know that I can password protect 
: > the entire HD, but that would prevent others from using it.  Is there 
: > some way to password protect a partition on a HD?  How about a folder?  
: > Any other ideas?

[Mac-based workarounds deleted]

Why don't you simply encrypt your confidential files? I haven't been
using encryption in the past, but I guess there are many utilities out
there preventing others from viewing/starting your files/apps.

I think ShadowWrite has a simple (sorry Andre:) ) password protection
(for text files).

- henrik
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