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<blockquote data-quote="witeshark" data-source="post: 27394" data-attributes="member: 3865"><p><span style="color: darkred">The best way I know is to create a separate user - - this is the <em>main</em> beauty of a Unix type system! Keep that or those files in that users name with its own password. As Admin or Root you have total control of read/write permissions to all files. So as an example, a file can be kept under your user name and only you can read/write to it. Or you can make it so another user can read only. For details open Finder and select Mac help from th top bar menu and type keychain</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witeshark, post: 27394, member: 3865"] [color=darkred]The best way I know is to create a separate user - - this is the [i]main[/i] beauty of a Unix type system! Keep that or those files in that users name with its own password. As Admin or Root you have total control of read/write permissions to all files. So as an example, a file can be kept under your user name and only you can read/write to it. Or you can make it so another user can read only. For details open Finder and select Mac help from th top bar menu and type keychain[/color] [/QUOTE]
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