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From: straka@cbnewsc.att.com (richard.j.straka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: WANTED: a utility that will 'lock' my SE from prying people
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.143109.9124@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 7 Feb 91 14:31:09 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.173009.22351@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <166@atux01.UUCP> <1991Feb1.224659.12501@dbase.A-T.COM>
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In article <1991Feb1.224659.12501@dbase.A-T.COM> cy@dbase.UUCP (Cy Shuster) writes:
|In article <166@atux01.UUCP| jlc@atux01.UUCP (Jim Collymore) writes:
||You may want to try buying "After Dark" from Berkely Systems.  Once you've
||loaded it in, and re-booted, you can go into the control panel and set it
||to password protect.  So that no one can disengage the screen saver without
||the password.  I've never tried that on my machine, but for you it sounds

|Unfortunately, even though After Dark isn't advertised as a maximum
|security system, the glaring hole in the password feature is that
|it's not required at boot time: all you need to do is reboot the machine,
|and away you go!
|
|It should prompt you for the password when the INIT is loaded, IMHO.

Actually, the init will kick in and prevent booting off of the "normal"
system if the Mac was turned off WHILE after dark was active (read "pulled
the plug").  It works, but that's not the way I want to turn off my machine
on a normal basis.

Of course this cannot prevent one from walking up with a bootable floppy in
hand, ...
-- 
Richard Straka                    AT&T Bell Laboratories, IH-6K311
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