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- UPLOADED by Helmut DIER
- hel@vm.univie.ac.at
-
- DOCUMENTATION TO PASSWORD.SYS VERISON 1.1
-
-
- PASSWORD.SYS enables you to protect your Harddisk or Floppydisk from
- not welcomed Users. If you have the problem that several people enter
- your system without your permission, and you are sick of that, then you
- could find this little program useful.
- It asks for a PASSWORD (maximum 40 characters long), and repeats until
- the correct password is typed in or halts your machine if the password
- isn't valid after the fourth try. The password is quite sure and very hard
- to break - so don't worry, that a Hacker could enter your machine. The
- difference to other commercial products is, that it is written as a
- device driver, which means, one cannot interrupt its Code. There are only
- two ways: one: Reenter the password or switch off the computer. there's of
- course too the posibilty to access via the Floppydisk and alter the Config.sys
- file, but for normal use its quite save.
- I just wrote this program to test the devicedriver possibilities of MSDOS.
- This program does nothing exept asking for a password, and lock the computer,
- if no one right is typed in. It doesn't cut off any of your valuable RAM.
-
- Installation
-
- 1) Copy PASSWORD.SYS and SETPASSW.EXE to your root-directory (or utility
- directory, if you have got one).
- 2) Load the file CONFIG.SYS (in the rootdirectory of your bootdrive) into a
- texteditor(only ASCII-TEXT) and insert the Following as the first in
- CONFIG.SYS:
-
- DEVICE=C:\PASSWORD.SYS
-
- 3) After doing this reboot your Computer. Now should be the Pasword-prompt
- on your screen. The default-password is "GUEST". Enter it now; be care-
- ful: the program works case-sensitive, that means that GueST and GUEST
- aren't the same (like in C and Modula-2).
-
- 4) If you like to change the Password, then use the program SETPASSW.EXE,
- which comes with PASSWORD.SYS. First you have to enter the correct
- password and then yu can enter a new one. Write it down and store it
- in a save place, so that if you forget your password you could look it
- up.
-
- There are some tips using Passwords:
-
- -) You should change your password regularly (e.g. each week).
- -) Use random combinations of Letters and numbers; then you could be
- quite secure, that no one will be able to hack in.
-
-
- If you find this program useful and like it, then be so kind and send me
- something for it, so that I get more ideas to develope my program (I'm
- thinking of Directory access rights etc...). A little gift would be
- appreciated in the range from US 5$ to US 10000000$. If you register then
- you get always news about new products and updates for this one.
-
- THIS PRODUCT IS SHAREWARE - YOU ARE ALLOWED TO HANDLE IT TO YOUR
- FRIENDS AND OTHERS BUT ONLY IF NOTHING IN THE PROGRAMS OR THE DOCUMENTATION
- IS ALTERED. I DON'T CHARGE FOR ANY DAMAGES, THE USE OF THIS PROGRAM MAY
- CAUSE. ALTHOUGH IT IS PROGRAMMED TOTALLY CLEAR ERRORS CAN'T BE EXCLUDED.
- IF SUCH ERRORS OCCUR, AND YOU ALLOCATE THE ERROR THEN PLEASE SEND A MAIL TO
- ME.
-
- please send money orders to:
-
- Christoph Christ
- Karl Schweighoferg. 9/6
- 1070 Wien
- AUSTRIA
-
- MAIL.Address:
- Because I don't have an account for myself, I have to use the address of
- a friend of mine. He'll send the mails to me after that. His address:
- hel@vm.univie.ac.at
-
- REMARKS:
- Version 1.1 now enables hidden input of Passwords; not as the Version
- 1.0 did, which echoed the String to the screen. Now for each Character
- a '*' is displayed. you can edit your input as you are used to it.
- The first Release of my program was a test, if it would be useful for
- other users. after a mail fron Mr. Salmi from GARBO i got encouraged to
- develope my program more. Next versions will have the option to switch
- the screenprompt between several languages (spanish, french, german,
- italian, and english).
-
- Bueno amigos, ¡hasta lugo!
-
-
- Vienna 13nd Nov. 1992 Copyright 1992 by Christoph Christ