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From: ersys!drin@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Adrian Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Keyboard Lock Software
Message-ID: <Pka5w2w163w@ersys.uucp>
Date: 9 Feb 91 19:56:24 GMT
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anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:

> 
> Seems to me that under version 1.0, there was a program you
> could run that would disable the keyboard until a password
> was entered (despite an evident chicken/egg problem there :-).
> This widgie let you go away for a while without either logging
> out or leaving a kind of gaping security hole.  Does anyone
> know if this thing has yet been updated (I gather the old one
> does not run under 2.0), or failing that, of the existence of
> a comparable facility?  Thanks.
> 

I've seen the 2.0 version of Lock running on a machine on campus here, 
and i can probably get my hands on it. If nobody else knows of a site 
it's available on, I'll ftp it to an archive (probably cs.orst.edu) and 
let you know..

As for it not working under 2.0, that's very true. It does some nasty 
things, like make you do an NMI shutdown. It freezes the entire machine, 
and can only be killed by powering down...

-drin