Path: utzoo!mnetor!frank
From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Security System for Macs?
Message-ID: <4845@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 89 17:34:19 GMT
References: <7028@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <7028@pucc.Princeton.EDU> EILEEN@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes:
>Has anyone heard of a security system for a Mac which would prevent
>all but authorized users from using a Mac, even though unauthorized users
>also have *physical* access to the Mac?  I assume such a system would
>have to be in the form of a key lock (a la the IBM PC/AT systems) or
>something similar.

A software product that might help is NightWatch from Kent Marsh Ltd.
It 'locks' a disk by encoding a signature on it. To access the disk,
you have to be a registered user and provide a password (you also need
a 'key' disk). I read a good review of it before I bought it, but it
was a while ago (MacGuide might have a review and/or rating).


-- 
Frank Kolnick,
consulting for, and therefore expressing opinions independent of, Computer X
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