Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!reed!reeder From: reeder@reed.UUCP (Doug Reeder) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Looking for some utilities Message-ID: <13353@reed.UUCP> Date: 29 Sep 89 09:27:48 GMT References: <32471@srcsip.UUCP> Reply-To: reeder@reed.UUCP (Doug Reeder) Organization: Reed College, Portland OR Lines: 23 In article <32471@srcsip.UUCP> shankar@src.honeywell.com (Subash Shankar) writes: > >I'm looking for some utilities for certain functions. > >1 - Password protection on folders, so you can lock out access to > certain folders and/or disks. I don't need anything fancy or > unbreakable - just something that will keep a computer novice > from accessing files. You need something which allows you to set the access bits on a file or folder (i.e. that makes the MLI SET_FILE_INFO call) For full access, set the access byte to $C3, for standard "locked" $01, to disable reading set it to $00. Note that disabling reads on directories can create interesting situations where you can read a file but not its directory entry. Someone out there must have a simple utiliy to set the file info on files. If you have it, please post it. -- Doug Reeder USENET: ...!tektronix!reed!reeder Box 722 Reed College BITNET: reeder@reed.BITNET Portland, OR 97202 from ARPA: tektronix!reed!reeder@berkeley.EDU (503) 777-1551 "A blaster can point two ways." -Salvor Hardin