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- From: jyork@iastate.edu (Justin York)
- Subject: Re: User protection?
- Message-ID: <jyork.727911529@pv343d.vincent.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <1993Jan19.102914.22466@city.cs> <1993Jan24.134840.16494@aristo.tau.ac.il>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:38:49 GMT
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- In <1993Jan24.134840.16494@aristo.tau.ac.il> shacha1@tau.ac.il (SHEMESH SHACHAR) writes:
-
- >: Is there a way to enable a number of users to have their
- >: own private file space on the a disk?
-
- >: Its for an A3000 to by used by a number of people in a
- >: church, so I'm not paranoid about hacking, but people
- >: may need a measure of security for sensitive data and a
- >: defence against some user accidentally deleting another
- >: users directory.
-
- YES!!! There is a file called CryptDevice1.7 (maybe 2.0 by now) which will
- do just that. It creates a file on your hard drive which will be handled
- as a volume after it is mounted. It provides encryption, and when the
- device is first accessed, it brings up its own requestor asking for the
- password. You could set up a partition for each user, and automatically
- mount it via a login program (try Login , it's a good looking login front-end,
- and will allow you to keep a log of each user). This combination should make
- your system fairly professional-looking and secure from most malicious users.
-
- Justin York
- jyork@iastate.edu
-