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Padlock on Mail
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Sweden
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Hi, I wonder if I could lock my mail from people using my MacBook. Sometimes you lend the laptop out to a friend and I dont want anyone to be able to reed my private mail.
I dont want to ad another profile, just a "padlock" on Mail
Cheers Anders
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2003
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First suggestion: Do not lend your MacBook! Are you nuts?
Second suggestion: Create a Guest account.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
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Do what zro says: create a guest account in OS X. That way *all* your stuff is relatively private to your friends.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Sweden
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I was hoping for an application that could secure the contents of my private mail. Just a discreet padlock...
But as you suggest a new account would make all 100% safe depending of the rights given in the guest account.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Newport News, VA USA
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If you are running Leopard, there's no need to create a separate account-- just enable the Guest account. Any changes made to that account are deleted when they log out, and on next login everything is bone stock again.
Pair that with Fast User Switching, and you can let someone use your laptop any time and not worry about them mucking anything up.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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A guest account wouldn't make things 100% safe. 100% safe would entail never giving your computer to someone else in the first place (and probably never connecting to the Internet). Mostly safe would entail enabling a guest account and turning on FileVault. Moderately safe would be just to enable the guest account, knowing that with physical access to the computer there are ways to easily access a non-encrypted account. Now if you only want to secure your email, you could stick your email database files on a separate encrypted disk image.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: FFM
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The guest account is the way to go. In Leopard it just needs to be enabled.
If it's a person you absolutely trust, like your girl-friend or your mother, then that's enough. For everyone else you probably shouldn't lend your compter without having FileVault turned on.
In either case you have all your data safely backed up beforehand.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2003
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I wouldn't enable File Vault without a proper backup.
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