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Article #629Re: IBM password
From: Vesselin Bontchev
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 09:09
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 09:09
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bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu ( Hari Seldon psychohistorian ) writes: > >Does anyone know of a program that puts a password program in the config.sys > >the boot sector of an IBM PC? I know of many that it's in the autoexec.bat > >but that is almost laughable. > drdos 6 can provide what you want 1) It's a bit too much to recomend to somebody to change the whole operating system, if he just needs a password requesting program. 2) A password in CONFIG.SYS is just as laughable as one in AUTOEXEC.BAT. 3) The login password protection in DR-DOS 6.0 can be bypassed with just a bootable diskette and DEBUG. Of course, if you have something more convenient, like Norton Utilities, the task becomes really easy. Regards, Vesselin -- Vesselin Vladimirov Bontchev Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg Tel.:+49-40-54715-224, Fax: +49-40-54715-226 Fachbereich Informatik - AGN < PGP 2.0 public key available on request. > Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, rm. 107 C e-mail: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de D-2000 Hamburg 54, Germany
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Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!rzsun2.informatik.uni-hamburg.de!fbihh!bontchev From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) Subject: Re: IBM password Message-ID: <bontchev.717757754@fbihh> Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News) Reply-To: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de Organization: Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg References: <BvAv1r.M8C@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <bill.717738277@chaos.cs.umn.edu> Date: 29 Sep 92 09:09:14 GMT Lines: 25