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I was wondering how to restrict access to a specific drive in Unix on the Mac. I was thinking to do this in Terminal where I create a file like this mkfile 6k secure_access. And where secure_access will be on the external drive and will only allow a specific user to be allowed to access the drive, thereby preventing other users from accessing it.

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You can create an encrypted disk image on your external drive, which will require a password to mount. As long as you don't give out the password, other users will not be able to mount the image. See: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1578 for details.

Basically, you use Disk Utility located in the Applications -> Utilities folder to create a new disk image, give it a name, a size, and then in the Encryption dialog, select an encryption type.

Disk Utility will then prompt you for a password which you must use to mount the disk image.

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the link is broken though. – Ravin455 Jan 3 '12 at 18:18
@Ravin455 strange, it works for me. – gabe. Jan 5 '12 at 2:14
@Ravin455 in any case, I updated my answer to include a summary of the needed steps. – gabe. Jan 5 '12 at 2:20
yeah i just tried the link again and now it works. – Ravin455 Jan 5 '12 at 14:23

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