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Hey, IT guys by I need clarification 05/18/2006, 6:40pm PDT
Can you help me with something? I don't know, but I bet you do!

Here's the request - we want to be able to take a single folder on all users' machines and prevent them from being able to delete it or any of its contents. Our batch processes will be reading from it and writing to it constantly during a normal workday. Approximately once a week, we will want to be able to delete it (also via a batch script). We want all this to occur without the user having to log out.

Our IT dept is proposing setting up a new account which will have specific "delete" rights to the folder, while simultaneously removing those rights from the users' accounts. When it's time to delete the folder, our batch process will log in to the dummy account (IN THE BACKGROUND), delete the folder, then log back out. The downside to this is that when this batch runs, it will prompt the user for a password (as we cannot pass in the dummy account's password with the batch, apparently). This isn't too bad, but it will also let them know what the password and account name are, and then they could potentially log in as that account and delete the folder themselves.

Anyway, I'm wondering if there is a third-party solution already extant that does this sort of thing. In essence, it would be like trying to protect a folder from yourself.

I'm not an IT guy so any acronym-avoidance would be appreciated. Thanks!
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