Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance
References: <jpugh-180892215401@90.20.3.212>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 23:50:56 GMT
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From article <jpugh-180892215401@90.20.3.212>, by jpugh@apple.com (Jon Pugh):
> In article <1992Aug18.085018.1645@fwi.uva.nl>, geniene@fwi.uva.nl (Geniene
> (Sheep)) wrote:
>>
>> They're going to work with this stack in a hospital, so I'd
>> like to have some advice on how I can lock it properly, so that those
>> hospital person's can't delete it.
>
> You can't stop an idiot, no matter how hard you try.
>
> Nevertheless, set the Finder's lock bit in the Get Info dialog and
> Hypercard's cantDelete property in its Protect Stack dialog. This won't
> stop anyone from dragging it to the trash, but it will prevent the trash
> from being emptied. It will make the stack read only though.
>
> Jon
In addition to the above you may want to use a security program such as Empower, to set the Access Privileges on the folder containing the stack, to not allow the user to make any changes (this includes trashing the stack)