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From: leonard@qiclab.uucp (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Auto backups to tape
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.053018.17389@qiclab.uucp>
Date: 6 Dec 90 05:30:18 GMT
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Organization: QIC Laboratories/SCN Research of Tigard Oregon
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dbielik@sunb.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Danny Bielik) writes:

<I am running Novell ELS II V2.12 in Non-dedicated mode, and I have it set up so
<that there is an account whose sole purpose is to wait for 1am and then do a 
<full backup to tape.

<Now, I have this problem, where, whilst it is waiting for a backup, someone
<can come along and CTRL-C and break into an account with full supervisor
<priveleges.  Now I need a way to disable CTRL-C and CTRL_BREAK in order to
<stop anyone from doing this.  I also don't want any TSR memory overhead, so it
<has to be a program that is run then finished, not stay-resident.

Well, our solution is rather simple. We *physically* secure the system
that is running the backup. In our case, it's inside a *locked* office.
You may be able to get away with merely locking the keyboard.

Never try to use software for a job more reasonably done by hardware!
-- 
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