Are you on CF 10, or earlier? There is a change in 10 that no longer requires creation of sandboxes to restrict dirs in RDS (see http://blogs.coldfusion.com/post.cfm/new-way-to-add-sandbox-permission s-for-users-with-rds-access).
Prior to that, it does require sandboxes, and then you’d use the multiple user feature of the CF Admin to define different users (for the admin and/or RDS) and allocate them to a sandbox. Things do vary also depending on whether you’re using CF Standard or Enterprise/Trial/Developer edition.
For more (besides the docs, such as the Config and Admin manual), see these articles I’ve done in the Adobe Dev Center:
Enabling multiple user access to the ColdFusion Administrator and RDS
http://www.carehart.org/articles/#2009_1
The following are much older (2002) but most still applies:
ColdFusion Security, Part One: Understanding Sandbox/Resource Security
http://www.carehart.org/articles/#2002_11
ColdFusion Security, Part Two: Sandbox/Resource Basics
http://www.carehart.org/articles/#2002_10
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