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jason@coombs.anu.edu.au (jason..) writes:

>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 ..
Yes but when you SSTOR your hard disk you have a little part of it non-compressed
because the dos will not read the compressed " partition " . So you have a 
DCONFIG.SYS which chains the original config.sys where is placed the line
DEVICE=C:\DRDOS\LOGIN.EXE. So if you just delete the chain line ....

	Massimo
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