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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mac Security
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Date: 25 Aug 90 02:34:14 GMT
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rapickering@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:
> MacWorld and MacUser really liked FileGuard.

	We're pretty happy with MacPassword from Evergreen software.  It has
a built-in screen saver ("flying line" moire patterns) and demands your
password on both startup and when coming out of screen-saver mode.  You can
start up with a system floppy, but you won't be able to do anything with the
hard disk (various config options control how true this is).  A power user
should be able to break the protection scheme by using ResEdit from a statup
system floppy, but I suspect that's true of any Mac password program.

> The protection scheme allows you to set up accounts for different users 
> with different passwords and privledges accordingly.

	Can't do that with MacPassword, but there is a guest mode, which I
havn't explored too much.

> The going price is about $126 mail order.

	Yikes!  MacPassword is about $30 from the author, with various
quantity discounts.  I think if you buy enough of them, you get some sort of
system-administrator master password which lets a "super user" get into any
machine in the group.
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