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- From: btf57346@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Byron "Bohr" Faber)
- Subject: Re: Locking OS/2 on boot (passwd protection)
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:09:19 GMT
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- mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
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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.
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- >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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- I've seen some hardware cards. But alot have a "driver" that needs to be run.
- Lot of good that does us os/2 people.
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- And as for the bios, the cold boot only protection isn't nice either.
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- Oh well.
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- Byron Faber
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- Answer: Turn the computer off. Byron "Bohr" Faber
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