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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 01:56:49 -0500
- From: "Manu S. Kumar" <mk5a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: Password at Boot for PCs
- In-Reply-To: <1dmmrgINNo59@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
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- Excerpts from netnews.alt.security: 9-Nov-92 Re: Password at Boot for
- PCs by S.E. Brown@ecst.csuchico
- >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
- >
- >---
- >S.E.P. Brown
- >shawnb@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu
- >PGP public keys available upon request
-
-
-
- McAffee Associates leads me to believe that this package would
- attempt to provide security by embedding code either in the partition
- table or the boot sector. If that is the case it can prove to be
- sensitive and even vulnerable. If some one could provide more
- information I would appreciate it.
-
-
- Manu Kumar
- (sneaker)
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