Password protective a volume

chopper3

My PB is going back to appl for paint bubble issues, a friend with an ibook has offered to lend me his machine - so I've carbon-copy-cloned my pb onto a fw disk and can boot from it on his ibook - but he doesn't want me looking at the contents of his disk (I've told him I won't be he still wants it "closed off"). So my question is, bar removing the internal disk (not easy on an ibook), can I password protect (or something) the internal disk so that all I see is the external fw disk?



Confused? you will be...



Thanks.

curiousuburb

not sure if you're asking the best question to solve the problem you describe



while hidden and password protected folders and volumes are possible, if you put the boot volume into this mode, what will it boot from?

(better to copy his "sensitive" files into a secure folder and leave the rest of the OS and applications available (Photoshop isn't secret, just his Pron retouches using it)



can he not just create a new user in OS X for you to use

(common applications and system-stored content will still be visible to you, but anything in his user directories will not be readable by other users like you, who'll only see the drop box, but no contents)





yes, you can boot from an external FW volume, but the internal would stil be present and viewable... locking it off would be a pain



- incidentally, if you boot from the cloned PB drive, you may notice display spanning and other "PB" features appear on the iBook, depending on GPU (Radeon works, Rage may not) -





not sure if that clarifies your options or fits your situation. does it?

ghost_user_name

You could always put the "sensitive" files on an encrypted read/write disk image. Just be sure that when you make it, the box for remembering the password on your keychain is NOT checked (it is by default, as I recall).