How do I Deny Access to an External hard drive

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dshatha

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Hello,

I have a QuickSilver running Tiger (Leopard upgrade coming when RAM arrives) and have 4 users ( fast user switching enabled). I would like to deny all access to the external hard drives except for the administrator of the box.
I have already have gone into the info Sharing & Permissions and only allowed admin access others have "no access" however when I switch user (using fast user switching) they assume ownership of the drives and have access.

Just so you understand the overall direction I would like to go. I'm a photographer and my images are loaded on various external hard drives which is plugged in to the desktop. Family uses the desktop and do not want them to access my work on the external hard drive, however I do need to connect via my laptop to edit images via ethernet which I would obviously enter the admin username and password for the desktop when challenged.

Any ideas???


dsh
 
Don't use 'admin' but your user name specifically so that no other user can use the generic admin title (as most users will be when they create a user account, for full control of the computer).

The simple kludgy fix is to remove the connecting cable for the drive and hide it when you're not there. :)
 
That does not work. I changed the ownership to another user and then did a fast user switch presto that other user now is the owner of the volume.
I also changed the permissions via unix to 700 but guess what it doesn't matter! Does anyone have a proven solution?
 
Try selecting the drive in question, do a cmd+I to get info, and at the bottom of the list there is a section on "Sharing and Permissions".
Maybe you can do something with these.

jb
 
Have you tried TinkerTool to manage permissions? Each user should set their permissions to Read/Write except for Other. This app won't work in Leopard, though.
 
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Natobasso said:
Have you tried TinkerTool to manage permissions? Each user should set their permissions to Read/Write except for Other. This app won't work in Leopard, though.
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Why do you say that TinkerTool will not work in Leopard.
According to Version Tracker...
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TinkerTool Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9

jb.
 
jbarley said:
Why do you say that TinkerTool will not work in Leopard.
According to Version Tracker...
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TinkerTool Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9

jb.
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Just the permissions function isn't available in the Leopard version. My mistake.
 
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