#Digital sentry password#

The interface for creating monitors is nicely laid out, making it easy to create a new monitor.

#Digital sentry password#

You can also set a password for Digital Sentry, so that it can’t be accessed or quit without supplying the password.

All interaction with the program starts with a click on its menu bar icon.

When running, Digital Sentry is a faceless background application it doesn’t have an icon in the Dock. The possibilities are limited to what you can think to link together-and with the ability to execute shell scripts and run applications, you can make your Digital Sentry monitor do pretty much anything.

Put the computer to sleep, or shut it down.

Take a picture of the person with the iSight camera and automatically e-mail it to you.

Using Digital Sentry, you could quickly create a monitor that does all of the following: Or consider a scenario where you suspect someone’s been trying to break your password on your cubicle-dwelling Mac at work. A simple example would be a monitor that waits a set amount of time, then runs a backup program. Each action will have some associated configuration options, such as the text to speak, the amount of time to delay, which file to open, volume level, etc.Īctions are added by dragging them from a source list into a blank work area, much as workflows are built in Automator you can also rearrange actions by dragging them around within the work area.

There are 16 actions to choose from that cover the expected (run a shell script, open a file or program, put the computer to sleep) to the unexpected (display a fake security alert, speak some text, take a Web cam picture, send a text message). Once you’ve chosen an event to monitor, the next step is to define the action or actions to be taken when the event occurs.