Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!lucas From: lucas@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Brian Lucas) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Password program. Where ? Summary: Hardware is available that password-protects the system Message-ID: <1990Oct30.180312.5734@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: 30 Oct 90 18:03:12 GMT References: <90299.144326JFS10@psuvm.psu.edu> Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Lines: 23 In article <90299.144326JFS10@psuvm.psu.edu> JFS10@psuvm.psu.edu (Jonathan Swaby) writes: >I am in search of a password program for my hard drive. I don't want people >to be able to boot with a floppy and gain access to the drive. I don't want >a program that protect just individual, but one that asks for the password >when the machine is powered on. > I doubt such a thing is possible with software. Apparently, this is not uncommon with hardware, though - my roommate has a '386 that allows a power-up password to be installed, presumably in the CMOS setup. There are ways around this, as with any password, but it would make it quite difficult to get around, and that of course is what passwords are for. No security is unbreakable, as we all know. Maybe you should investigate hardware that allows such things. I imagine that there is nothing that you could do without messing with the hardware that couldn't be undone with the simple step of booting fom a floppy. Brian Lucas, a lowly student at the U of Manitoba. (Internet preferred address) (Not preferred address) (Bitnet address - last resort for email)