Password Protected .dmgs

I need to password protect some files - quick Google search told me the only way to do it without 3rd party apps is to put them in a password protected disk image. So I did that, and when I clicked go, it asked for as password etc etc... everything normal. But then I go to mount the disk image and it just... mounts. Doesn't ask me for my password or anything.

I did it once before, but that was when I was using 10.4, and it worked fine then. That's the only thing I can think of that's different to this time. What am I doing wrong?

Leukeh, be nice if someone answers this. I would like to know also.

Tried several times in Tiger to create password protected .dmgs and everyone of them I created would open up without so much as asking for the password. I gave up.

Perhaps the passwords were saved in your keychains?

So if they were, would that mean it automatically put them in? Not much of a password protection but ok... I'll see if I can do it without putting them in KeyChains

when u created the DMG, and entered the password, it had a checkbox that said "remember password in keychain"

just unclick this.

spotlight->keychain. should be in there somewhere. select it, edit, delete.

They do behave in a really weird way on your own machine. However, they do work. Try this, create a small encrypted image, put a silly little text file in it. Close it, zip it, delete the original. Then email the zipped, encrypted bugger to your self. Download it, extract it.
Now you have a copy of the original sitting on your Desktop, with no relation to the original. Double-click it, it will ask for a password. Email it to a friend to double-dog dare that it works, it will!
But it is true that if you create it in your own account the original will open up without a password. Which kills the ability to use it securely in your own account.

Now how did I miss that?! kgeier82 is totally correct. Sheesh.

What a dummy So easy!! Don't have a clue why I didn't at least try that.


Don't know what I thought when I was trying it.
Must have figured it would still cause me to put in my master password even if I did have it saved in the keychain.

Anyway - thanks kgeier

i like easy fixes

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