Password Protect folders in OS X?

[bjc112]

Hey all, just wanted to lock up a few folders, Without creating additional users..

Anyway to add a PW to a single folders? Additional software needed?

Thanks!

Bryan


OS X 10.4.1

 

[n0cmonkey]

Not that I'm aware of. Use proper permissions and you're set.

 

[casper114]

What operating system do you have loaded on your machine

 

[KH85]

Originally posted by: casper114
What operating system do you have loaded on your machine

Password Protect folders in OS X?

:frown:

 

[nweaver]

assuming that file permissions in OSX rely on the unix backend, it should be easy to restrict acess only to the users you want in it. the other option would be to share them as samba and then browse them across the loopback connection, then you would have username/password check.

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: nweaver
assuming that file permissions in OSX rely on the unix backend, it should be easy to restrict acess only to the users you want in it. the other option would be to share them as samba and then browse them across the loopback connection, then you would have username/password check.

Well there is only one user account, but multiple people use the machine..

Just wondered if there was a quick easy fix to add a password..

What about through compressed folders?

Similar to windows..

 

[drag]

Just setup multiple users and such.

Not only does it make your life easier, it's nice to have non-admin-style users setup for security and such. It's not Windows, the whole being able to do groups, have non-admin users, and such actually works.

that way if you have a folder, but you only want to have certain users access it, then you setup a group, set permissions to the folder for that group, and then add the users you want access to that group.

Not to hard.