Have Skills, Will Travel Charles Armour

Security and VMWare Fusion

Unfortunately not everyone has access to an Apple machine running OSX, so for an iPhone-Development curious friend I decided to create an account and let him play with things over VNC.  Being at least slightly concerned about the security, I tested out what his account had access to before turning it over, and was dismayed to find that he could reach all the partitions in /Volumes/ with no problem, including private files in my Windows User folder.

I solved that quickly and easily by changing permissions on /Volumes/ to 770, verified that it blocked his access, and left it alone.

When I started using VMWare Fusion instead of booting directly to Vista, I found that running a virtual machine from any volume except System failed, and it occurred to me that the /Volumes/ permissions must be the problem.  After switching them back to 777, VMWare works great but I’m left in a quandary as I’d like to be able to virtualize and share this workstation at the same time.

Any suggestions for this?