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From: dixon@sagittarius.crd.ge.com (walt dixon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Simple "password" application?
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Date: 2 Feb 90 13:47:15 GMT
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In a previous posting Charles Allen writes:

>I'm looking for a "password" application.  I want to be able to invoke
>a password dialog on demand, after an idle period, and at startup to
>discourage unwanted people from diddling with a Mac at work.  Extreme
>security is not the point.
[some text deleted]
>This certainly sounds simple to me.  Just pop up a modal dialog box
>asking for the password, then exit (or switch yourself out?) when it's
>given.  The password could be set in a resource in ResEdit (again, no
>extreme security measures are necessary).  Any takers?


I'm not quite sure what extreme security is,  but I would classify any
protection program that can be circumvented using the programmers switch
as insecure.

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