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cotrozzi@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Massimo Cotrozzi) writes:

>bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu ( Hari Seldon     psychohistorian ) writes:

>>In <BvAv1r.M8C@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> rlee@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Richard Lee) writes:

>>>Does anyone know of a program that puts a password program in the config.sys and
>>>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

>If you don't mind for people booting your PC with MSDOS 5.0,
>editing the disk and changing the line in config.sys that says
>DEVICE=C:\DRDOS\LOGIN.EXE to something like
>REM CE=C:\DRDOS\LOGIN.EXE
>and then boot your computer again.
>You could put a BIOS password but then if someone takes the battery out you're done
>again.
>There's no way to protect a PC from use by unauthorized users ..
>( I am not talking just for DOS, for UNIX too . Think about it !!!)
>>bill pociengel
>>--
>>llbi locgeenpi " i'm a little confused right now"

I believe you can encrypt the contents of your harddrive when you use superstor
which is supplied with DR-DOS 6. This is as well as encrypting certain 
directories (logical drives?) to prevent access to them. Hence, you boot
of a bootable dos disk .. grab your copy of norton's and proceed to examine
junk (hopefully) .. There are probably ways around it, but it seems as secure
as you could hope to get for whatever the cost of dr-dos is ..

-jason
>	Massimo
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