To Protect a Device

Device protection enables you to view the software protection for a selected device and to either write protect, read-write protect or disable protection. The device protection options are:

• Disable Protection

• Write Protect Without Password

• Write Protect With Password

• Read-Write Protect with Password

To View a Device's Protection

1. In the Removable Media Manager window, click on a device.

2. From the Selected menu, choose Properties.

To Disable Protection

This option allows the user to disable software protections if the medium has been previously write or read-write protected.

1. If the media has been write protected without a password:

   1. In the Removable Media Manager window, select the device.

   2. From the Selected menu, select Disable Protection.

2. If the media has been write or read-write protected with a password:

   1. In the Removable Media Manager window, select the device.

   2. From the Selected Menu, choose Disable Protection.

   3. Type the password into the Password dialog.

To Enable Protection

This option allows the user to enable software protection.

1. To write protect without a password:

   1. In the Removable Media Manager window, select the device.

   2. From the Selected Menu, choose Write Protect.

   3. In the Protect dialog, click Write Protect Without Password.

   4. Click OK.

2. To write protect with a password:

   1. In the Removable Media Manager window, select the device.

   2. From the Selected menu, choose Write Protect.

   3. In the Protect dialog, click Write Protect With Password.

   4. In the Enter Password area, type the password.

   5. Tab to the Verify Password area and type the password again.

   6. Click Apply.

3. To read-write protect with a password:

   1. In the Removable Media Manager window, select the device.

   2. From the Selected Menu, choose Read-Write Protect.

   3. In the Protect dialog, click Read-Write Protect With Password.

   4. In the Enter Password area, type the password.

   5. Tab to the Verify Password area and type the password again.

   6. Click Apply.

4. Command Line Option

   To start the Password dialog box from the command line, type:

   sdtmedia_prot [-w|-d] /vol/dev/rdsk/...

   Use the command line options in the following table to specify the degree of protection for the device.
   Table 6–1 Command Line Option sdtmedia_prot

   —w	If the device is not protected, write protects the device without a password and does not display any dialogs. If the device is already protected, displays an error dialog.
   —d	Disable device protection. If the device is password protected, the user is prompted for the password.

   Use the command line options in the following to specify the degree of protection for a device.

To Change Your Password

To change your password, you must first disable the existing password protection and then apply the new password protection to the device. After entering your new password you will have to enable password protection.

1. Disable your password protection.

2. Type a new password in the field.

3. Re-enter the same password.

4. Click Apply to enable password protection or Cancel to abort the operation.