Re: Program Security

From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu)
Date: 12/23/02 

From: "Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 01:34:19 -0700

"Steven" <misterbanoo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:06d301c2aa55$2d5bfae0$d5f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA12...
> Dear Microsoft, I am an Windows XP user. I was wondering
> how I'd go about making it so only my account would have
> acces to certain programs.EXAMPLE: I just got a new PC
> game, and I dont want my children to play it, because it
> is too violent for them. Now how would I go about making
> it only accesible from MY account?
>
> Thank you, email me back ASAP.
>
>
> Steven,

Hi Steven,

I am not Microsoft, but I will try to help you out on this.

You can do this easily if
1. your children use a different account from the one
   that you use
2. your system is using the NTFS filesystem
3. you set permissions on the files that are the program
   executables so that your account can execute them
   but the account(s) of your children cannot.

You can, if you have not yet, use the User Accounts
applet in control panel to define accounts for your children.

You can right click and select properties on the root of
your drive, C:\ for example, and it will say what filesystem
you are using.

Then, let us say the you defined an account named son for
use by your son, and let us say that you have a game that is
not to be used by the son account and you have found that
it is installed at c:\program files\company\game
Now, with is example, you could then at a cmd prompt run

cacls "c:\program files\company\game" /e /t /d son

in order to prevent the son account from accessing any of
what is stored at c:\program files\company\game 

--
Roger Abell
MS MVP (Security, Windows), MCDBA,  MCSE both
Associate Expert - Windows XP ExpertZone
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

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