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From: paulm@nikhefk.UUCP (Paul Molenaar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Password Protection
Message-ID: <546@nikhefk.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 89 20:32:42 GMT
References: <1834@Portia.Stanford.EDU> <568338@vaxa.uwa.oz>
Reply-To: paulm@nikhefk.UUCP (Paul Molenaar)
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In article <568338@vaxa.uwa.oz> a_dent@vaxa.uwa.oz (Andy Dent, ph: 09 380 2620) writes:
#In article <1834@Portia.Stanford.EDU>, vera@Portia.Stanford.EDU (James Vera) writes:
#> Is anyone aware of a public domain or commercial product that allows
#> you to require a password to access the hard disk?  I'd appreciate any tips.
#> 

You could also check out SilverServer utilities. Comes at about $99 and
has some very nice features for that money. Including the SilverLining
formatter for Cirrus harddisks (but usable for many other popular
harddisk brands). It can partition your harddisk (even re-partition
without re-formatting under some circumstances) and cane have you
set up a password for one/some/all of your (logical) harddisks.

Nice feature by the way: my Mac now won't run from its harddisk without{
the proper password (great if you have kids :). Booting from floppy
won
t help either, because the password protection scheme is somehow buried
in the SCSI-driver (or so I think). No way
you're gonna mount the harddisk without the password. Bet it
breaks all the Apple rules... but hey... I don't care.

SilverLining is only part of the SilverServer package that can have
you run a Tops-like network. Even share one modem on an AppleTalk network.
Works a bit clumsy, but what you expect at $99 ;)

BTW: I don't know LaCie (the publisher) only as a customer of their
product.

        Paul Molenaar

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        Paul Molenaar

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