Padlock
place your apps under password protection
Version: 2.1.0
Absolutely Great
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: jreffner Tuesday, August 08 2006 @ 01:13 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: YES
My wife's business uses multiple Macs and multiple accounts per Mac. Apple's Backup needs to be used to back up data from the employee's accounts to my wife's one and only iDisk. In order for this to work the .mac information needs to be entered in the employee's account. Unfortunately this also means that my wife's email is available to any and all employees. Since I couldn't figure out a way to disable Mail from the employee's account only (without also disabling Backup), I decided that PadLock might do the trick. It did, and it does it very well. I was concerned that PadLock would apply its rules globally. It does not which enables me to lock Mail in the employee account, but not in her (the wife's) account. FYI: PadLock has to be running for it to work. There are check boxes in the app that allow you to set it to run at start up and to keep it invisible if you want. It doesn't suck a ton of resources either. It also requires a password to quit itself. This is good as it prevents someone from turning it off and then accessing the application you don't want accessed. Basically it does everything I needed it to and more. The interface is very easy to use. I don't have to continually mess with it. It just works. I'm very happy with it.
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Comments
A simpler solution: - coracle
You are by no means the first that has evidently missed the point of Padlock? If you wanted to stop someone reading 'your' mail whilst 'you' were logged in as 'you' but away from your computer, or if you did not have user accounts, or wanted to use single user start up, then moving applications to another user account will make no difference. If you want to stop children using a browser or chat program, then moving them to another user account will also make no difference. Thank goodness our many customers have decided that there simply isn't a simpler solution!Thursday, February 01 2007 @ 09:28 PM PST
A simpler solution: - mjsickel_
Wouldn't it be simpler just to move Mail.app to her user's Application folder (the one in her user folder rather than the one at Root)? Then it wouldn't be there for others but still would be there for her.Reply to This
Sunday, January 14 2007 @ 06:08 PM PST