How to restrict accounts from accessing internal drive?
Michael Levin
accounts for various people in my lab. It has an additional internal hard
drive, which I want only one of the accounts (mine) to be able to see. I
checked ownership and permissions on the volume, and set it to what I
thought would only allow that one account to read/write it. But when I log
in as another user, the drive is listed as owned by whichever name I log in
as! What am I doing wrong? What's the best way to keep accounts out of a
particular disk?
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Mike Levin
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Yet Another John
Michael Levin <mlev...@comcast.net> wrote:
Just make sure the users you want to restrict are not allowed to
administer the computer. Go to Users in the system prefs, select the
user you want to lock out, click EDIT and uncheck the "allow user to
administer this computer" button.
If you're the only administrator and you then go to the permissions for
the volume and you disallow read and write permissions to that volume
then you should be the only one who can get there.
John
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Michael Levin
john.siple-1AAF9...@netnews.comcast.net, "Yet Another John"
<john....@VAPORIZEcomcast.net> wrote:
very odd. I looked, and all of the other accounts do not have the "allowed
to administer" checked. I was the administrator, and set the disks to be
owned by me, all permissions disallowed to world and group. And yet, when I
log in as any other user, the disk is shown as being owned by that user, and
completely accessible....
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Mike Levin
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Yet Another John
Michael Levin <mlev...@comcast.net> wrote:
What happens when you run First Aid and repair permissions?
J
Michael Levin
john.siple-A9208...@netnews.comcast.net, "Yet Another John"
<john....@VAPORIZEcomcast.net> wrote:
aha! Great question. When I tried to repair permissions on the disk, I
discovered that the "repair permissions" button was grayed out. Why?
Because, it turns out the disk has no OSX file system on it! It's an OS9
disk. Now it's starting to make sense. The OS9 disk has no permissions info,
right? So, now the question is: is it possible to turn it into an OSX-style
file system or otherwise assign permissions to it?
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Mike Levin
mlev...@comcast.net
eddav
get info on the disk, then ownership & permissions. There should be a
check box saying ignore ownership & permissions for this disk. Make
sure that is UNCHECKED. Then, the permissions you have given that disk
should remain the same for all users on the system.
eddav
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Michael Levin
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<eda...@concordia.sa.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi, if you want the permissions to apply for an external Hard Disk, Go
> get info on the disk, then ownership & permissions. There should be a
> check box saying ignore ownership & permissions for this disk. Make
> sure that is UNCHECKED. Then, the permissions you have given that disk
> should remain the same for all users on the system.
> eddav
Oddly enough, even though I did that, it continues to ignore ownership!
Whoever is logged on to the computer is listed as the OS9 disk's owner, even
though I have the ignore box unchecked... If anyone has any other ideas...
Mike
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