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- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!sifon!charnel!shawnb
- From: shawnb@ecst.csuchico.edu (S.E. Brown)
- Newsgroups: alt.security
- Subject: Re: Password at Boot for PCs
- Date: 9 Nov 1992 21:57:04 GMT
- Organization: California State University, Chico
- Lines: 30
- Distribution: alt
- Message-ID: <1dmmrgINNo59@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
- References: <BxAxnM.71G@minerva1.bull.it> <1992Nov7.172229.16974@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Keywords: pc password boot security
-
- Someone a while back wrote:
-
- >>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.
- >
- >>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!
- >
- >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.
-
- There is a program available at the simtel archive called ccp10a.zip
- (I think this is correct, in any case it is in the /msdos/security
- directory) that is put out by McAffee Associates. It provides boot
- protection for the hard disks, and will not allow access to the hard disks
- when the system is booted form a floppy. All in all it appears to be
- a pretty good system, the only drawback being that I can't run any
- disk-caching software, because it somehow messes with the functioning
- of the program.
-
- Shawn
-
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