Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!macman
From: macman@ethz.UUCP (Danny Schwendener)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Security System for Macs?
Message-ID: <771@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 89 13:01:05 GMT
References: <7028@pucc.Princeton.EDU> <314@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Reply-To: macman@ethz.UUCP (Danny Schwendener)
Organization: ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
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In article <314@lloyd.camex.uucp> kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg) writes:
>Notes:	=I don't know whether the system partition can be password
>	 protected (never tried that) but I suspect it can.  Guess I
>	 should check.

It can. If the entered password for a startup disk is wrong, the 
System will reboot.


>	=I don't know how secure it is.  I have 2 partitions in a row

The passwords are not written in plain on the disk, and therefore you
cannot find them with a disk utility such as MacTools, FEdit, MacSnoop,
etc. However, there is another trick to get them back, but as it
requires some knowledge of the macintosh internals, only "Real Men" will
find it out. In a business environment, the password protection is
sufficiently secure to prevent unwanted access (and deletion) of your
files. In an university... I don't know.

-- Danny Schwendener
   ETH Macintosh Support