First it was MacPrefect, and now On Guard! Both of them have the same security flaw, they have emergency passwords in case the admin forgets his! In theory you'll need all sorts of software registration stuff for the company to give away the emergency password. In reality you only need nO Guard 1.1.b. to get the emergency password. With other words: nO Guard is a program that generates emergency passwords for On Guard 3.0.1.
--==< Instructions >==--
Lemme start with a bit of background information. Whenever the login name "emergency" is used On Guard generates, a so called, Emergency Code. This code is generated from the current date (plus some other things). On Guard possesses this feature in case the administrator forgets his password. In case of the above event he's supposed to take this Emergency Code, call Power On Software, give them his registration info and in return they give him the Emergency Password. As mentioned in the introduction, nO Guard generates this Emergency Password.
OK, so here's how to use nO Guard:
1. Sign off as the guest user (or whatever user you're loged on as). (Read section "On Guard's Default Features" for help with this)
2. In the Sign off dialog enter "emergency" as the name and click the OK button.
3. This should have brought up an alert-box giving you your Emergency Code. The emergency code will look something like "G1280112342".
4. Launch nO Guard and select "New" from the File menu.
5. In the dialog that pops up, enter the Emergency Code WITHOUT THE FIRST LETTER!!!!! Meaning don't enter "G". In this example you should enter "1280112342" as the emergency code!
6. Click OK. A window should appear giving you the Emergency Password.
7. Sign off in the Finder again, and use "emergency" as the name, and the Emergency Password (generated by nO Guard) as the password.
8. (NOTICE: if you want to generate another Emergency Password, you'll have to close the window first, in order for the "New" item in the File menu to activate)
Since the Emergency Code is generated based on the current date, it's probable that it'll stay the same for a while! So use your illusion if you can't run nO Guard from a school computer; call a friend who's sick at home or something!
--==< On Guard's Default Features >==--
On Guard is a very well designed protection program. Unfortunately (or should I say fortunately), it still has a lot of flaws! Here are some of the default features of On Guard:
First of all the default admin name/ password is: Administrator / admin. I would, however, not count on any admin being stupid enough to use this, as he/she is prompted to change it the first time he restarts after installation.
The admin can limit the guest's access in a way that the On Guard menu item doesn't show up in the Finder. This menu item contains a "Sign off..." option which allows anyone to log-on/log-off. The default key-command for this (in the Finder) is Apple-Q. This menu item can also be activated if the shift-control-option keys are held down.
Under normal circumstances holding down the shift key at startup disables all extensions. On Guard bypasses this, thus this method won't work. However, the developers did employ a similar function. Under default settings, if you hold down the apple-option-s keys, it will disable extensions at startup. Notice that this can be changed by the admin any time!
A minor security flaw is that neither the password nor the login name are case-sensitive. Thus the password "ProZaq" is the same as "prozaq". And when the computer checks the password it converts the entered letters to capital case.
--==< Known Bugs >==--
I guess nO Guard is a complete change for me since I didn't write it in assembly, but in C. Yes, ProZaq went out and bought himself a book on C, and in less than a month's time he's written a program! It's not "much" of a program but it does the job rather well. The only "bug", to the best of my knowledge is, that I didn't use any update events for the window. So in case you move the window or something, it doesn't redraw your desktop. Also if you collapse the window or make it larger, the text in it will disappear. I couldn't be bothered to use the TextEdit calls!
Other than that, there shouldn't be any problems with windows and things like that (I made sure that you had to close the open window before another can be opened).
--==< Special Thanx >==--
I would like to thank NoDoZe for his artwork. It can be found in the "About nO Guard" alert box!
I'd further like to thank Statz for getting me going on this project!
--==< Freeware >==--
nO Guard 1.1.b is a freeware. This means that you don't have to pay for using it, and you may distribute it freely to whomever you want, but only under these conditions:
1.When distributing nO Guard 1.1.b you will include this "Read Me!" file as well!
2.You will not change anything in the application nO Guard 1.1.b nor the "Read Me!" file, without my permission. (If you want to change it around I probably won't refuse your request, it's just that I'd like to have a copy of the new program)
3.You will not blame me for any damage that is done to your (or anybody else's) computer because of nO Guard 1.1.b .
--==< Disclaimer >==--
I take NO responsibility to whatever happens to anybody's computer because of the use of nO Guard 1.1.b or any related use. I have tested nO Guard 1.1.b extensively not only in it's final state of existence, but also as I was developing it. I have tested nO Guard 1.1.b on a PowerBook (603e) running under OS 8.1, without encountering any problems. The coding (as I released this software originally) did NOT contain ANY "destructive" traps or purposes (nor was it virus infected to the best of my knowledge!). So if anything goes wrong because of nO Guard 1.1.b I WILL NOT take responsibility for it! If you use nO Guard 1.1.b it's under YOUR OWN responsibility!
--==< THE END >==--
nO Guard 1.1.b may be updated in the future if I'm bored or there's any demand for it!
Do me a favor and if you wanna spread this file around, don’t change anything in it!!! If you do decide to change it please send me a copy of the new file to me! You can reach me at ProZaq@usa.net. You can send me attached files to ProZaq@hotmail.com
Also I would not like some punk’s name instead of mine on the end of the file, if you know what I mean!!!!
