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Offline Animal

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Password protecting a running app
« on: February 26, 2010, 06:13:57 PM »
OK, here's the scenario. I have a computer I use at work which is a community computer. I have virtualbox running XP for a program I need for work. I want to be able to protect this running app from being closed accidentally when someone else is on the computer.

It takes seemingly forever to get back up and running after its shut down, its a process believe me and its happened several times even though I have "do not close" posted on the screen and as a wallpaper on XP in virtualbox.

The program in question uses a USB hardware key that has to be mounted after XP has fully finished booting and if you time it wrong it crashes, or locks up and I have to shut down the computer and rerun the process again. Sometime two or three times before it works. And at almost ten minutes to a successful boot it can take a lot of time.

If I could lock this window from closure it would be a huge help.



 
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Re: Password protecting a running app
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2010, 06:24:43 PM »
Animal, could you create a new user for the community and only run the process as a different user?


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Re: Password protecting a running app
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2010, 06:31:58 PM »
Then you could lock the X session and start a new one for the community.
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