Re: Granting/restricting programs to access folders/resources?

From: Trevor Rickards (trickards@shaw.ca)
Date: 12/19/02 

From: "Trevor Rickards" <trickards@shaw.ca>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 03:10:12 GMT

"Pieter" <welcome@chello.nl> wrote in message
news:3DF9FBBF.955C64A3@chello.nl...
> In windows NT it is possible to grant/restrict users to access specific
folders
> and other objects/resources (e.g. programs). Is it possible to
GRANT/RESTRICT
> PROGRAMS to access specific folders and other objects/resources? Is there
a
> utility which can arrange that?
>
> e.g.:
> 1:) A user has access to folder A and B (e.g. through the 'explorer'
program).
> I want to restrict the program 'Dangerous' to be able to read only in
folder B,
> even if the user has access to folder A and B through other software.
> 2:) A user has access to folder A and not to folder B. I want to grant the
> program 'DBMS' to access folder B at any time or at least for that user.
So the
> user can not access folder B through e.g. the 'explorer' program or
'MS-word'
> etc, but he can through program 'DBMS'.

Unfortunatly for you, the program is running as the user, therefor what the
user
has access to, the programs the user runs has access to, and vice versa. In
2K
and XP you have the "run as..." option, which may help you out some, but not
having played with it myself, I'm not sure if it will do what you want.

Trevor Rickards
Technical Analyst
Information Management
Saskatchewan Environment