In the future Sharemation will also be supporting client side digital certificates as a means of identifying users. By using digital certificates you will be able to have even greater security, as there will be no passwords for you to remember or have stolen. Locking Locks are a way for you to stop other people from writing to a resource. If you created a resource that was read and writeable by a number of users, you need a way of stopping other people from updating the resource while you are updating it. Once you create a lock, other people cannot update or delete the resource unless you release the lock.
Locks automatically expire in one day.
The two types of locks are exclusive and shared. One person owns an exclusive lock, while many users can take out a shared lock. The shared lock will allow anyone with the lock to write or delete the resource. It is simply there as a way of telling other people you are working on a file. That way they can inform you of their changes.