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DEMO VERSION
ACSA
ACcesS Authorization system
Version 1.05
Copyright (c) 1991-1994 by
Data Rescue Services.
All Rights Reserved
A C S A
(c) 1991, 1994 Data Rescue Service. Ver. 1.05
Phone: (415) 282-6464, Toll Free: (800) 234-4379
FAX: (415) 282-6499 A C S A
Here's what you can use ACSA for:
** If you have a computer at home and keep important files on it, and
you also have children that play games or do homework on your computer,
you need to protect your files from accidental erasure, modifying or just
curious browsing by your children.
** If you have a computer at work that other people need to use at
various times, and you can't keep it locked physically when you're not
around, now you can use ACSA to lock up your confidential data and keep it
from prying eyes and office gossip, while still letting others have access
to the files and programs they need to use.
** If a computer (or several computers) are in a school computer lab,
you can now guarantee separate work by many people on one PC, and prevent
them from pirating programs that you are responsible for. You get sued,
not the software pirate!
** If you want to demonstrate a program at an exhibition or computer
store, but you need to insure that nobody copies your program, erases the
files or reformats the hard disk when no one else is watching.
ACSA can do all of this . . . and more!
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| |
| * virus "vaccination" -- prevent, don't just detect viruses |
| * prevent program piracy and copyright infringement lawsuits |
| * login and password for each user, and log their usage |
| * limit a user's access to other user's files and directories |
| * no access to hard drive when booting from a floppy disk |
| * encrypt and decrypt your files in real-time as you use them |
| * limit access to floppy drives on per-user basis |
| * define maximum disk space allowed per user |
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This diskette contains files for the demo version of ACSA. Below is
a list of the differences between this version and the standard version:
1. The program for first installing the system is absent. Without
this program, you can't protect your hard drive against boot from floppy
disks. Also, you can't encrypt your hard disk partitions.
2. All functions for the protection of files (setting and changing
access authorizations, protection against direct read/write and from
formatting) work only on the floppy disks, not on the hard disk(s). To
perform direct read/write or to format a floppy disk, login as "disk".
3. In all of the commands, the password is not verified.
4. All files must be located in C:\ACSA subdirectory
Installation:
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First make sure that Your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files are not
READ-ONLY files. You can use DOS command ATTRIB to correct this problem.
Create a sbdirectory C:\ACSA on your hard disk for ACSA files
(DEMO version accept only C:\ACSA name)
Log into the subdirectory with ACSA files
To ACTIVATE ACSA - type ACSA_ON
To DEACTIVATE ACSA - type ACSA_OFF
After installing, the following lines will be added to the start of the
new CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files (assuming C: is where ACSA resides):
in CONFIG.SYS : DEVICE = C:\ACSA\ACSA.SYS
in AUTOEXEC.BAT : ECHO OFF
CLS
C:\ACSA\ACMD.EXE LOGIN
and at the end: PATH=C:\ACSA;%PATH%
IF EXIST PROFILE.BAT PROFILE.BAT
After rebooting, login as "root" at the ACSA login screen, and ACSA
will be functioning. (To un-install run ACSA-OFF and reboot. To re-install
type CD C:\ACSA and run ACSA-ON, then reboot.)
You may edit CONFIG.SYS or/and AUTOEXEC.BAT files if you have
different names for subdirectories (for example "E:\AACSAA")
The new AUTOEXEC.BAT file will now run the PROFILE.BAT file in the
root directory containing the command: "C:\ACSA\AC"; which means that the
AC (ACSA Shell) program will automatically run when you login. Using
F2 in AC you can assign user name and access level to files on your floppy
drive. Then use Ctrl-U to become another user, such as "demo" or "test",
and try out the various access modes (see the file INTRO.DOC). Login as
"demo" and try copying one of the .EXE files on the ACSA demo disk to the
hard drive -- ACSA won't let you do it. This is ACSA's anti-piracy feature:
just as the demo version prevents copying "x" mode files to the hard disk,
ACSA's full working version prevents copying "x" mode files to a floppy.
In ACSA Shell, the TAB key moves the cursor bar from one side of
the screen to the other, and pressing ENTER on a file name attempts to run
that file (it must be a *.BAT or *.COM or *.EXE file). The Function keys
also let you view, edit, copy, rename, move or delete files or directories.
F9 displays a menu bar on the top of the screen. Press ENTER at any
menu choice for a pull-down menu on that item. You can edit the ACEDIT.BAT
and ACVIEW.BAT files in your C:\ACSA directory to run your favorite editor
and file browser, for example: "ED %1" in the ACEDIT.BAT file.
The ADM command (Ctrl-A in ACSA Shell) lets you define users and
their home directories, amount of disk space they can use, etc. If you
assign C:\DEMO as the home directory of user 'demo' and make a PROFILE.BAT
file in that directory, whenever 'demo' logs in, his own profile will run.
Ending the PROFILE.BAT file with "\ACSA\ACMD LOGIN X" logs off the users
when they are finished running the programs in their profile.
Files on ACSA DEMO diskette:
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AC.EXE - the ACSA Shell start module
AC.HLP - the ACSA Shell help file
ACEDIT.BAT - batch file to run your favorite editor
ACMAIN.EXE - ACSA Shell main file
ACMD.EXE - runs the commands ADM, AMOD, LOGIN and USER
ACSA.CFG - file with access mode for system files
ACSA.DIR - ACSA's directory file
ACSA.DOC - Full documentation on ACSA (including features
implemented in working version only)
ACSA.SYS - system driver
ACSA-OFF.BAT - batch file to un-install the ACSA system
ACSA-ON.BAT - batch file to re-install the ACSA system
ACVIEW.BAT - batch file to run your favorite file browser
ADIR.EXE - the ACSA DIR command
ADM.BAT - batch file to run the ACMD ADMinistrator command
AMOD.BAT - batch file to run the ACMD AMOD command
CHMOD.EXE - command for changing access modes
INSTALL.BAT - batch file for installing ACSA DEMO
INTRO.DOC - ACSA introduction
LOGIN.BAT - batch file to run the ACMD LOGIN command
README.1ST - this text file
USER.BAT - batch file to change the user code
WHO.EXE - show info about current user
COMPATIBILITY WITH OTHER PROGRAMS
1. FDISK.EXE, DM.EXE (Disk Manager) and other programs that make changes
to the partition table are not compatible with ACSA. Therefore, you
may run them only before you install ACSA or after you remove it.
2. The CALIBRAT program and the WEEKLY TEST SURFACE of the Norton Disk
Doctor program from the Norton Utilities package also are not compatible
with ACSA.
3. The disk cache programs (NCACHE) from the Norton Utilities package must
be loaded as drivers in the CONFIG.SYS file before the ACSA.SYS driver.
ACSA
ACcesS Authorization system
Version 1.05
Copyright (c) 1991-1994 by
Data Rescue Services.
All Rights Reserved
A C S A
(c) 1991, 1994 Data Rescue Service. Ver. 1.05
Phone: (415) 282-6464, Toll Free: (800) 234-4379
FAX: (415) 282-6499 A C S A