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From: gordonh@milton.u.washington.edu (Gordon Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Is there a MS-DOS login program
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.051134.16485@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 91 05:11:34 GMT
References: <9106210038.AA05627@popeye.sfsu.edu>
Organization: University of Washington
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gary@POPEYE.SFSU.EDU (Gary Fong) writes:

>Is there a login program for a HP Vectra RS/25C 386 machine running MS-DOS 4.0?
>This machine will be placed in a public place but it's use won't.  I need to
>somehow keep the riff-raff off the machine.  Incidentally, if the program
>relies on the neccessisity that the machine must be configured to boot FIRST off
>the hard drive, is there another program or something to do that?  The setup
>program provided with our machine doesn't have that option.

>Gary Fong
>gary@popeye.sfsu.edu (Internet)
>Exploring System Earth
>San Francisco State University

One possible suggestion is to use a password program like I do.  You cannot
get it to by pass via ctrl c or anyway like that.  You either enter the
password or you don't get online.  Many bbs's have these available, 
though not all work as well.  They may require you to insert a line in your
config.sys.  If you're worried about someone booting off a floppy to
get into your hard disk, you can reroute the system key lock to shut off
the floppy instead of the keyboard.  A simply switch of a cable should
do it.  Then just keep it locked.  I don't think its a good idea to
eliminate the possibility of booting off a floppy completely.  That
would solve your problem anyway.
Are you saying that you must boot off a floppy with your machine?
Never heard of that before (for a recent machine).  Well, that about
drains my brain.  Hope this was some help.
-- 
Gordon Hayes, MCIS, University of Washington
gordonh@milton.u.washington.edu
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore"