Password Protect One Folder inside Another Folder

[Wade Smart]

11132005 1717 GMT-5

If I had some input into those areas - I would. But school systems 
(some) are the worst IT infrastructure there is - or lack of it I should 
say. They are asking the impossible and if they get it, they will move 
away from Windows.

You got to think about this: there is 1 IT person for 1000 computers 
across four schools. They are underpaid, barely trained, are mopping up 
the last years IT person and they wont be around next year. Of the 
adults in the system, none know about security, none know about - well - 
anything really.

They want Word, Excel, and to click a Button called Start to get their 
programs. That is ALL they know.

Getting any type of training to them is just about impossible. They wont 
come in on the weekends and after school most are gone or have other 
things. Anyway, thats not the point.

To get (at least MY) school board online with this I will have to set up 
things they want that are stupid workarounds until I get them to 
understand a better way.

So, if windows doesn't have this and I can do this on Ubuntu, then I 
will. Anything to just get them moved over. Once they start to see how 
long this OS stays running and how easy it is to administer, I hope they 
will deploy system wide.

Wade

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>	You don't need to enter a password as long as the user is in the group
>of the folder. If not you might want to use "run as different" with nautilus.
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>	Alex
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>You appear to want a function which not even Windows provides by default. How
>about re-educating staff members to work with the laws on Data Protection and
>increase the security of the systems they work on?
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>The issue you seem to be having is that you want to open a protected folder
>whilst allowing people to use the computer for non-protected stuff. This is not
>as good a method of doing things as just having multiple users.
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>Why can't you try to get the people working with the computers to log off of
>their machine if they are going to be away for it for a considerable amount of
>time or use a screensaver for short periods?
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>Tony Ayre
>Localzuk
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