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- From: merkstam@nyx.cs.du.edu (Magnus Erkstam)
- Subject: Re: Password at Boot for PCs
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.172229.16974@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Keywords: pc password boot security
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 17:22:29 GMT
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- alexb@minerva1.bull.it (Alessandro Bottonelli) writes:
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- >Does anyone know of commercial or P.D. software that would prevent
- >booting a PC unless a password id keyed in? The purpose is to restrict
- >PC booting for those PC that have no EPROM passwrd nor a key switch.
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- >I know, I know, that would not prevent an intruder to boot the PC
- >from a floppy, but hey ... that's better than nothing at all!
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- There is a program called Safe Guard, I think it's commercial, but,
- I do not know where to get it.
- It will ask for account and password when booted from the harddrive,
- and, if booted from floppy disk it will deny that the hard drive exists.
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- /Magnus
- merkstam@nyx.cs.du.edu
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