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From: das@Apple.COM (David Shayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Silverlining Password break
Message-ID: <47141@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 6 Dec 90 07:13:27 GMT
References: <2755e536.528a@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> <4732@tellab5.tellabs.com>
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In article <4732@tellab5.tellabs.com> wiseman@tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman) writes:
>In article <2755e536.528a@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> mkellner@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (The Legendary Boffo) writes:
>>I was working with a friend's Silver Lining partitioning software the
>>other day, and found a nifty trick to get around password protected
>>partitions...
>>
>>When it asks for the password, all I did was hit the interrupt key which
>>kicked me into MacsBug (make sure MacsBug is installed) and then did
>>and "es" - exit to shell, which put me into the Finder.
>
>I am curious about this. You are saying that you could get around the password
>prompt for the partition that was trying to mount but you did not explicitly
>indicate that the "protected" partition succeeded in mounting. Did it?
>
>If you just hit RETURN or ENTER with no password, it will also continue on to
>the finder, you just don't get the partition mounted (or unlocked or changed or
>whatever it was set up for).
>
>Did you actually succeed in performing the protected action (eg. mounting or
>changing the lock status of a partition) or just getting past the password
>dialog box?

I too broke into Silver Lining this way.  Although I found that after ES
and returning to the Finder, I had to use a cdev like SCSI Tool or SCSI 
Probe to mount the "locked" volume.

David