Password protection for application start-up?

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DKMac Author

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Password protection for application start-up?

Is there a way of requiring a password to be entered when starting a single application?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Dec 28, 2009 1:53 PM

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Answer 1

V.K.

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Dec 28, 2009 1:58 PM in response to DKMac

no. and why would you want to? if you don't want other users to access your application data don't let them use your user account.

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Answer 2

DKMac Author

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Dec 28, 2009 2:28 PM in response to V.K.

Why? You want to stay logged in but you don't want someone who's visiting for the weekend to be able to access X. Not that unusual a situation I would have thought.

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V.K.

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Dec 28, 2009 2:43 PM in response to DKMac

as i said, don't let the other person use your account. you don't need to log out. just use fast user switching. that's the mac way of dealing with such issues. as i said, you can't password protect launching an application.

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Answer 4

Dec 28, 2009 4:31 PM in response to V.K.

what would happen if you installed the application in your users folder? eg. as well as desktop, documents, downloads etc. have an 'application folder' in which the protected applications are installed (instead of the main application folder).

I'm don't think that other people would be able to access them. Never tried though.

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V.K.

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Dec 28, 2009 4:39 PM in response to puzzlebobble

puzzlebobble wrote:
what would happen if you installed the application in your users folder? eg. as well as desktop, documents, downloads etc. have an 'application folder' in which the protected applications are installed (instead of the main application folder).

I'm don't think that other people would be able to access them. Never tried though.

that's a different issue. the OP wants to password protect an application from any account even from the currently logged in one. placing it in the user Applications folder won't help against that. but yes, if you put an app into the Applications folder in your home directory AND change the permissions on that folder to disallow access to other users then yes, nobody but your user will be able to run it.

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