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Re: Prevent file access.

At 1:33 PM -0600 7/6/04, Matt Jaffa wrote:

Hi,

Howdy.

Is there a way to prevent a file from being moved anywhere, so that it stays in the same directory that I installed it.
And also prevent any other application from opening it up and viewing its contents?
or from deleting it or even moving it to trash, like above prevent from moving it to another folder

There's the user immutable and system immutable flags, but anyone with physical access to the machine can change either (any user may set and clear the user immutable flag on a file they own; system immutable flags can be changed when running in single-user mode, where no password protection [outside of OpenFirmware] is enforced), so it's likely kind of pointless, at least from a program-registration/piracy-prevention point of view...

See 'man chflags' and <http://www.osxfaq.com/Tutorials/LearningCenter/AdvancedUnix/ugp2/page2.ws>.
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