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- From: db3l@ans.net (David Bolen)
- Subject: Re: Locking OS/2 on boot (passwd protection)
- Sender: news@ans.net (News Administrator)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.210755.28419@ans.net>
- In-Reply-To: btf57346@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu's message of Thu, 27 Aug 1992 13: 46:18 GMT
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:09:18 GMT
- References: <BtnA98.30@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <BtnA98.30@news.cso.uiuc.edu> btf57346@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Byron "Bohr" Faber) writes:
-
- >Ok. I like os/2's password protection, but does anybody have an idea
- >how to get it to lock up on boot. It doesn't do me much good if it
- >will only look up after 3 minutes idle, or if I tell it to.
-
- (To quickly answer the question - no, I'm not sure how to do this, but...)
-
- While it might be nice to have it lock upon boot (so you could start your
- machine rebooting and then walk away to do something before it finished
- coming up), this sort of feature isn't really going to add much in the way
- of protection.
-
- While the lock facility in OS/2 is pretty nice - if you are really
- concerned with securing your system, including for the cases where someone
- just comes up and reboots, you really have to have a system lock facility
- (ala AMI Bios, PS/2's etc..). Otherwise, your system is always exposed to
- a diskette boot or someone being able to interrupt your boot cycle in time
- to prevent any automatic "lock-upon-boot".
-
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