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From: jallred@bbn.com (John Allred)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: How to make a hard disk unmountable
Summary: break a disk structure somehow?
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Date: 4 Oct 89 23:20:02 GMT
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Reply-To: jallred@vax.bbn.com (John Allred)
Organization: BBN Advanced Simulation, Bellevue, WA
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A friend of mine at an ivy-covered university would like to control access
to his lab's macs, by requiring users to log in.  The log in portion works
well now.

The big hole in this scheme is someone booting off of a floppy.  So, what my
friend would like to do is something relatively easy and not too dangerous
to keep the system from mounting the hard disk.  After a proper login has
been received, then the log in program could fix the hard disk and mount it.

I have scanned the Tech Notes, Inside Macintosh, and the Q&A Stack, but
there's no information on this topic.  Any ideas out there?


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John Allred
BBN Advanced Simulation
(jallred@bbn.com)

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