Re: protecting a folder
From: Ted Zieglar (teddyz_at_notmail.com)
Date: 11/01/05
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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 13:29:11 -0500
What a great thread this has been. Thank you, Steven and Malke.
-- Ted Zieglar "You can do it if you try." "Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@nospam-comcast.net> wrote in message news:%23$vnBBx3FHA.1188@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... > You don't mention the operating system but there is no native way to > password protect folders. If you are using an operating system that uses > ntfs file system such as Windows 2000 or XP you can use ntfs permissions to > allow only authorized user accounts to access the folder within the > operating system but there are some problems even with that. Any user that > is a local administrator can access files he does not have permissions to > and it is trivial to become an administrator on a computer that is not > physically secured. Also someone who wanted access to your files could > simply remove the hard drive and put it into another computer to read/copy > them or boot from a cdrom such as Bart's PE. If the files were encrypted > then they could be possibly be denied access to the data. > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308418 --- file > permissions in XP. > > So depending on how confidential that data is you may want to store it on > another computer that is locked up somewhere securely or at minimum encrypt > the data. Encryption has it's own hazards and many encryption programs use a > password as the key to encrypt the data. A malicious user could install a > keyboard logger on your computer to capture your password to access you > encrypted file. Windows XP Pro has a very secure implementation of file > encryption called EFS. Your logon password is used to protect access to your > EFS private key that is needed to decrypt your files. IF you export and > delete your certificate/private key from the computer then your EFS > encrypted files would not be available to someone even if they knew your > password. Of course repeated importing and then deleting your EFS private > key to work with your data is tedious and easy to forget to delete the > private key after each work session or the end of the work day. If you > consider EFS or any encryption PLEASE be very careful as it is easy for you > to lose permanent access to your data and best practice would be to have > your EFS certificate/private key backed up to a password protected .pfx file > to external media in a couple safe places and to also backup your encrypted > work as clear text to external media and stored securely. --- Steve > > > "kable58" <kable58@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:38BF4CCF-A92C-49A1-AA8E-1D5F75E09A54@microsoft.com... > >I own a restaurant and keep all my financial information in one folder and > > have managers that have access to the computer. Is there a way I can > > password protect a folder? > >
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