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SecureGroup - Protect your Program Manager
(c) 1993,94 by Andreas Furrer
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This is version 1.14 of SecureGroup.
SecureGroup lets you protect your program manager by protecting the program
manager groups with passwords and setting restrictions to the functions of
the program manager.
SecureGroup requires Windows 3.1.
This file is also available in German. Please see SECGRP.TXG.
With SecureGroup you choose which program manager group you want to protect
with passwords.
If you want to open a protected group you have to enter a password. The
administrator of the system sets up as many user groups as he likes. Each
user group has a password, and for each user group the administrator assigns
which program manager group a member of the user group may open.
If a member of a user group opens a protected program manager group he has
to enter the group password, and if his user group has the right to open
the program manager group he can access the program items in this group.
The password of the administrator opens any program manager group.
To prevent a user from running a program with the RUN command of the
Program Manager or changing the properties of a program item, SecureGroup
allows you to set restrictions to your program manager.
There are several levels of restrictions:
1) Disable 'Run' command on the 'File' menu:
The Run command will appear dimmed on the File menu and the user will not
be able to run applications from Program Manager unless the applications
are set up as icons in a group.
2) Remove the 'File' menu:
All of the commands on that menu will be unavailable. Users can start the
applications in groups by selecting them and pressing ENTER, or by
double-clicking the icon. Unless you have also disabled the Exit Windows
command, users can still quit Windows by using the Control menu or ALT+F4.
3) Disable the 'Save Settings on Exit' command on the 'Options' menu:
The Save Settings command will appear dimmed on the Options menu and any
changes that the user makes to the arrangement of windows and icons will
not be saved when Windows is restarted.
4) Disable 'Exit Windows: command on the File menu.
Users will not be able to quit Program Manager through the File Menu or
the Control menu (the Exit Windows and Close commands will be dimmed), or
by using ALT+F4.
5) Restrictions for modifying groups
1) No creating, deleting, or renaming of groups:
prevents the user from creating, deleting, or renaming groups. If you
specify this setting, the New, Move, Copy, and Delete commands on
the File menu are not available when a group is selected.
2) + no creating or deleting of program items:
sets all restrictions of 1), plus prevents the user from creating or
deleting program items. If you specify this setting, the New, Move,
Copy, and Delete commands on the File menu are not available at all.
3) + no changing command lines for program items:
sets all restrictions of 2), plus prevents the user from changing
command lines for program items. If you specify this setting, the text
in the Command Line box in the Properties dialog box cannot be changed.
4) + no changing any program item information:
sets all restrictions of 3), plus prevents the user from changing any
program item information. If you specify this setting, none of the
areas in the Properties dialog box can be modified. The user can view
the dialog box, but all of the areas are dimmed.
If you want to prevent a user from starting an application,
you have to set the restrictions 1) and 4.1) to 4.4).
You can also have a log file for events.
SecureGroup is invisible. If you want to change the settings or want to end
SecureGroup, you have to start it a second time. But you have to enter the
password of the administrator to see the configuration dialog.
During startup SecureGroup tries to detect if your Windows is configured
for German language or not. If it senses it, SecureGroup will use German
language and if not SecureGroup uses English language. If you want to ignore
the default language you can add the following parameters to the call of
SecureGroup:
SECGRP.EXE /D : German language
SECGRP.EXE /E : English language
The first time you start SecureGroup, you will see the a dialog with some
instructions.
Configuration of SecureGroup:
=============================
In the configuration dialog of SecureGroup you will see:
- a listbox on the left side:
In this listbox you will see all user groups.
- a listbox on the right side:
Here you see all protected program manager groups.
- a button to add a new user group:
With this button you create a new user group. Each user group has
a unique name and a password.
- a button to change the selected user group:
You can change the name and the password of the selected user group.
- a button to delete the selected user group:
With this button you can delete the selected user group
- a button to show a dialog for log file options:
With this dialog you can select which events will be logged. You can also
enter the log file and the option to have the file attributes hidden and
system set for your log file.
If you don't enter a log file, no events are logged.
- a button to show the administrator dialog:
In the administrator dialog you will see a list with all program manager
groups. Selected groups will be password protected.
You can also set a timeout for opened protected program manager groups.
After this time (in seconds) an opened protected group will automatically
be closed.
Here you can also set the restrictions for the program manager and
you can change the administrator password.
With the option 'Use different icon for protected groups' you can choose if
you want to see a different icon for protected program manager groups.
- a button to exit Windows
If you select a user group in the left listbox, all program manager
groups that are in this group and are allowed to open are marked in the right
list. You can change this by selecting or deselecting the entries in the
right listbox.
Installation of SecureGroup:
============================
- Copy all files into the Windows directory
- Add SECGRP.EXE to the line LOAD= in your WIN.INI.
Note: It is recommended to start SecureGroup with the load command and not
by adding an item to your Startup group, because you can disable
the execution of this group if you hold down 'SHIFT' when you start
Windows.
Freeware-Note
=============
You can use and distribute SecureGroup free, as long as the following files
are not changed and you distribute all files together
- secgrp.exe
- secgrp.txt
- secgrp.txg
- secgrph.dll
I am programming SecureGroup for fun, and not to make any profit.
That's why SecureGroup is free and you don't have to pay more or less high
registration charges. I think it is a bad habit, that more and more program
authors want to have money even for the smallest program.
For informations about my other FREE Windows tools see the file
SOFTWARE.TXT (or the German version SOFTWARE.TXG).
Long live the Freeware!
If you have problems, comments, suggestions or you detect one error,
please E-Mail to
s_furrer@ira.uka.de
(c) 1993,94 by Andreas Furrer
Version history
=================
1.14: - Added the option to have a different icon for protected groups
1.13: - Changed the english documentation - Thanks to Daniel Hochstein for
correcting my errors.
1.12: - Changed the closing of groups so SecureGroup will work with
Progman-Groups 1.4 - Another nice utility that lets you have groups in
groups in the program manager
1.11: - Changed the timeout function:
Now the timeout for a group will begin when the group is opened
and not when the password dialog for the group appears
- Bug fixed: Characters with an ANSI code>250 were not stored correctly
if they appeared in any input
- Changed the layout of the dialogs Configuration and Administrator
1.10: - New: Timeout for opened protected program manager groups.
- New: Log file for events.
- New: Button in configuration dialog to exit Windows
- Bug fixed: The meaning of two program manager restrictions were swapped
1.00: First version of SecureGroup.