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- From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:45:38 GMT
- Subject: Re: Limiting access to a disk partition on IBM PC (seeking)
- Message-ID: <27210035@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
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- eduard@htsa.aha.nl (Eduard Beijnes) writes:
-
- > I lost my original copy of DR-Dos 6 so i could test it anymore (i use dos 5)
- > but if you run diskedit (norton) you can select the MBR and change
- > the field describing the partition type into a number which is used
- > when the partition is not protected.
- >
- > So the proctetion sucks.
-
- A system with *unprotected* tools like diskedit on it is unprotected,
- period. DR DOS or its security features can not alter that. But with DR
- DOS one can protect (set a password on) tools like diskedit too and make
- the system reasonably safe. And indeed the proctetion sucks, but the
- protection is not too bad! :-)
-