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- EGPASS.DOC v1.01
- 04-07-86
- Eric Gans
- French Dep't UCLA
- Los Angeles, CA 90024
-
- The password program PASS.COM affords a modest degree of
- protection for users of systems that boot from a hard (i.e.
- fixed) disk. By autoloading it on (cold) boot, you make it
- impossible to get around the password without rebooting from the
- floppy drive (and you need a floppy with system tracks to do it).
- This should prevent casual pests from using your computer when
- you're not around, although of course it won't stop the hackers.
-
- The password must be eight letters long, and can contain any
- printable character (lower-case will be folded to upper-case).
- The original password is ... you guessed it, PASSWORD. The
- enclosed file PASCH.COM can be used to change the password (don't
- leave it on your disk!). Or you can change it less elegantly with
- DDT etc. at 25F-266h.
-
- Autoloading can be accomplished most simply by using CMDLN.
- Or you can patch the CCP in SYSGEN, PUTSYS etc. & then write the
- new image back to the system tracks of the hard disk. On the
- Kaypro-10 the file is called PUTSYS.COM. The patch location is at
- 987h, the standard location of the CCP on all such programs.
-
- 987h --> 4 (number of characters)
- 988h --> 50h (=P)
- 989h --> 41h (=A)
- 98ah --> 53h (=S)
- 98bh --> 53h (=S)
- 98ch --> 0 (terminator)
-
- The same patch can be placed on floppies (it requires a copy of
- PASS on each disk).
-
- NB -- On some systems a file autoloaded in this manner will be
- run at each warm boot. The K-10 doesn't do this because the BIOS
- warm boot routine zeroes the character count byte at CCP+7. If
- your BIOS doesn't do this you should patch it, unless you want to
- enter passwords all day long.