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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Subject: Re: Locking OS/2 on boot (passwd protection)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.211816.29404@news.columbia.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:18:16 GMT
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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.
-
- Buy a BIOS that has a password option, or buy a security card. Another
- option is to encrypt your disk, but I don't think that is a good substitute
- for a hardware password, as they can still erase your data too easily.
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