norm Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Is there a solution for locking templates instead of using the password Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzframpton Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Put them in a directory that only you have Read/Write access to. Everyone else put as Read Only, but path the Template directory in their Search Path's in Options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Roy Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 ^^ That's what I did and it works beautifully. Likewise, plot styles and lisps (.fas format) are in the same permissioned folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmerch Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Put them in a directory that only you have Read/Write access to. Everyone else put as Read Only, but path the Template directory in their Search Path's in Options. Is .fas the only way to secure LISP's? I remember trying to put them in a folder nobody could access and then ACAD can't access it either...go figure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Roy Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Users need READ access, but not WRITE access. I put .fas (compiled) lisps in a READ ONLY folder on the network. No one's messing with my standards. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmerch Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Right, but I'm very protective of my LISP's and right now they're on a drive so AutoCAD can read them and I update them constantly so I didn't make .fas out of them, but I don't want a disgruntle employee to be able to copy them or do anything with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Roy Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 I'm very protective of mine too, that's why they're .fas files. If you want AutoCAD to see it, a user must be able to see it; have read access and not hidden. I change mine a lot as well. My LISPS are on 2 thumb drives and my phone, backed up nightly. The ONLY thing on the work servers is the .fas files that I recreate every time I make a change. It's the price I pay for privacy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Roy Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 I even compile the lisps I get from here or other websites, so that the self-proclaimed programmers don't screw with stuff and break it. They've done it, that's why I now do what I do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmerch Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 sorry, i didn't mean to sound like a prick (if i did)...i know that everyone is protective about LISPs and mine are probably hardly worth protecting...lol I may try your way...it's the simple solutions i never think of! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Roy Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 I didn't think you came across that way at all, just saying I do the same. I know the guys here (@ CADTutor) can recreate my stuff in the blink of an eye; my reason for protecting mine so much, is to keep people from within from changing them and breaking something and so far it has worked very well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmerch Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 i agree, i don't think my guys even know where they're at or what to do with them. Mine are backed up twice a day (just b/c of where they reside on server) so I'm not worried about losing them but for a period of time we had a couple guys I was worried about taking them if they quit and going to another company with them...seriously thought about putting a time bomb in the master LISP and making a .fas so if they did, it wouldn't work for long. Just never followed through Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Roy Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 My acaddoc.fas looks at the username. If it's not on the list (defined within the .fas), it closes your AutoCAD. Easy way of maintaining licenses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmerch Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 ah...ways to skin a cat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Roy Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 You could do something similar. My acaddoc assigns users a value to a global variable, VARSET. My lisps first look for the varset as the first line in defining a function. If the variable is nil or "x", it skips the function. So running the command returns a prompt "Unknown User." So if someone steals one of the individual lisps, it does no good because the acaddoc.fas hasn't assigned the varset variable a value, so it creates an empty command. If they're smart enough to get both files, the user check in acaddoc catches them. It's a nice little web I've spun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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