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To: Martin E. Frankel who wrote (24023)12/25/2001 9:30:32 AM
From: Nick Morvay  Read Replies (1) of 110653
 
Martin, you're not doing anything wrong. The problem is Win98. There is no "real" security because whatever user is logged in can still access anything on the box. In fact, any user can delete the password file and then login as any other user with no password required. The only real advantage of setting up separate users under Win98 is that the environment will be specific to the way the user has setup the desktop. The premise is that if you don't see it on the desktop, then it's not available to the user and therefore it can't be run and messed up by accident. However, if you run Windows Explorer, the user has access to ALL files on the system. There is no way to set file permissions at a user level. For that level of security you need to run Win2k.

Regards,
Nick
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