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From: ebert@arisia.Xerox.COM (Robert Ebert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Simple "password" application?
Summary: Why bother?
Message-ID: <6014@arisia.Xerox.COM>
Date: 2 Feb 90 21:20:57 GMT
References: <3055@pur-phy>
Reply-To: bebert.osbunorth@xerox.com (Bob Ebert)
Organization: Xerox Sunnyvale System Software Unit
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In article <3055@pur-phy> cca@pur-phy (Charles C. Allen) writes:
>I'm looking for a "password" application.
>    *	Runs as an application.

You're not looking for a "password" application at all.  The security
you talk about is so minimal it's hardly worth the trouble to even
ask the user to type something.

A simple solution would be to put a Scotch Post-It(tm) on your
Mac, asking people to see you before using it.  Simple, complete,
and no bells or whistles.  (The things you can do with post-its are
really amazing!)

As an alternative, create a document with your favorite word 
processing application.  Put it someplace useful.  Have it opened
on startup.  This is an electronic analog of a Post-It.

You might also want to check out StartScrn, an init that puts
a 'message of the day' on your screen at start time.  You've
got to click to make it go away.  I think you can find it at
sumex-aim... it was posted to comp.binaries.mac a couple of months
ago.

			--Bob