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SuperLock
The Amiga Security Device
(c) Copyright 1991 by Jonathan Potter
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Recently, at the Sydney World of Commodore show, I caught two kids trying
to copy a commercial program off a demonstration computer's hard drive onto
their own floppy disk. I thought at the time, wouldn't it be good if there was
some way to disable the floppy drives, to prevent this sort of thing, but
still leave the hard drive active for demonstration purposes.
Introducing ...... SuperLock! The security program for the Amiga.
SuperLock allows you to disable any or all of your disk drives, hard drives
and other storage devices. It also allows you to disable the keyboard and the
mouse, for added security.
SuperLock requires the arp.library to be present in the LIBS: directory.
When you run SuperLock, a window appears, prompting you to enter a password.
If this is the first time you have run SuperLock, the password is "password"
(without the quotes and in lower-case; passwords ARE case-sensitive).
All the other gadgets on the SuperLock window are inactive until the correct
password is entered. Enter the password and press return.
SuperLock then lists all the devices present in the system. To select a
device for locking, simply select it. Select it again to toggle locking off.
If there are more than ten devices present in the system, you can use the
slider gadget to move through them.
The gadgets at the bottom of the window labelled Keyboard and Mouse allow
you to enable or disable keyboard and mouse locking.
There are six gadgets at the right of the window. These are :
All..... selects all devices for locking.
None.... turns locking off for all devices.
Toggle.. reverses the state of all devices.
Lock.... enters locked mode. More about this later.
Save.... saves the configuration. More about this later.
Quit.... exits the program.
When you have selected what you want to be locked, select the Lock gadget.
window disappears, and you will find that your choices have taken effect. All
the devices you selected to be locked will become non-DOS disks, and cannot
be read from or written to. If you chose to lock the keyboard, you will not
be able to type anything. And if you chose to lock the mouse, the mouse will
be moved to the bottom-right of the screen, out of the way, and you will not
be able to shift it.
To return to the SuperLock window from the locked state, press the Left Amiga,
Right Amiga and L keys at the same time (this works even if you chose to lock
the keyboard). The SuperLock window will appear, and you will be asked to
enter the password again.
At this point, the keyboard and mouse will become unlocked if they were locked
before. You now have 15 seconds to enter the correct password and press return.
If you fail to do so, the SuperLock window will disappear and the keyboard
and mouse will be locked again (if they were selected for locking).
If you click the close gadget on the window without entering the password,
SuperLock will returned to the locked state. You cannot remove SuperLock from
the system without the correct password.
Entering the correct password causes all locked devices to be unlocked as
well. At this point you may choose new devices for locking, or quit the program.
Once the password has been entered, the close gadget will actually quit the
program, rather than returning to the locked state, as described above.
SuperLock can save your choices to a file in the S: directory. If you click
the Save gadget, a file will be created called SuperLock.cfg. This contains
the password (in encrypted form), the names of all the devices you have selected
for locking, and the locked state of the keyboard and mouse.
To change the password from the default "password", simply edit the password
string at the top of the window and click the Save gadget. From now on, your
new password will be required to activate/deactivate SuperLock.
If you have your choices saved (with the Save gadget), you may elect to run
SuperLock from the startup-sequence with the -a flag. That is,
SuperLock -a
The -a flag causes SuperLock to enter locked state immediately upon being
run; it does not need a password entered until you press the Amiga-Amiga-L
sequence.
SuperLock runs fine from the Workbench. It automatically detaches itself from
the CLI, so you do not need run or runback.
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SuperLock is freely distributable copyrighted software. If you use it, you
might like to consider making a small donation to the author.
To contact the author, write to :
Jonathan Potter
P.O. Box 289
Goodwood, SA 5034
Australia
Phone : (08) 2932788
FidoNET : 3:680/829
Internet : jpotter@itd.adelaide.edu.au