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- From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: protection for system files
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <Jim_Johnson.05sb@abcd.Houghton.MI.US>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 10:29:51 EST
- Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch
- Lines: 31
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- In a message dated Tue 21 Jul 92 9:41, Santoso@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu wrote:
-
- S> Hi! I have a question. I'm working in a computer lab which is
- S> connected
- S> using the Novell netware. I was wondering if there is a way to
- S> protect/
- S> lock the autoexec.bat and the other system files in the computer so
- S> that
- S> people can't screw them up? Hiding & read protection doesn't work. It
- S> can
- S> easily be changed. Thanks.
-
- S> Linda
-
- If you have users who are savy enough to get at your CONFIG.SYS and
- AUTOEXEC.BAT files when you have put read-only and hidden file attributes
- on, there isn't likely much will be able to do to completely lock out these
- meddling users.
-
- It is possible to patch COMMAND.COM to load a file with a name different
- than AUTOEXEC.BAT (see DOS Power Tools 1st edition), but given your setup
- it may not be advisable for maintenance reasons to travel that far off the
- beaten path.
-
- Another possibility would be to force users to boot from a write protected
- floppy and remove the system files from the hard drive.
-
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- Jim Johnson-
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