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- From: reza.naima@uttsbbs.uucp (Reza Naima)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Password protection
- Message-ID: <1064.5.uupcb@uttsbbs.uucp>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 06:36:00 GMT
- Reply-To: reza.naima@uttsbbs.uucp (Reza Naima)
- Organization: The Transfer Station BBS, Danville, CA - 510-837-4610/837-5591
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- vscarafi@eccdb1.pms.ford.com (Vincent F. Scarafino) writes:
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- VF>mlowery@npg-sd.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM (Mike Lowery) writes:
- VF>>
- VF>> Does anyone out there know of a method for password protecting
- VF>> Windows 3.1? I know about the password for the screen savers,
- VF>> but what I want is one for the whole system.
- VF>>
- VF>> By the way, I was shocked to learn that the easiest way to
- VF>> defeat the screen saver's password protection was to re-boot,
- VF>> re-start Windows, and simply reset the password in the Control
- VF>> panel. Some security.
- VF>>
- VF>> ----Mike
- VF>>
- VF>>
- VF>Afterdark has a program AD_WRAP that password protects DOS. I have
- VF>it as
- VF>the very first line in my autoexec.bat file. There is a theoretical
- VF>window-of-vulnerability boot at time when control is turned over to
- VF>your
- VF>autoexec.bat file and before this program is invoked. I don't know
- VF>enough of the details on how Control-C works at boot time to
- VF>determine
- VF>how easy it would be to circumvent. Of course, this assumes that
- VF>your
- VF>floppy drive is disabled, otherwise anyone with a floppy containing
- VF>the DOS SYS could boot the system from the floppy and change anything
- VF>they wanted to.
- VF>
- VF>Vince
- VF>
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- A long time ago I came across piece of password protection software
- which rested in the config.sys. I was never ever able to bypass it. Is
- it possible to break out of the config.sys (i know it is possible to break
- out of the autoexec.bat)?
- The program also somehow doesn't let you access the c drive if you boot
- up from the a drive!
-
- Reza
- reza.naima@uttsbbs.uucp
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