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From: Ed Carp
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 18:22

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Olaf Titz (S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de) wrote:

: In <bontchev.717757754@fbihh> bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de writes:
: 
: >...  
: >  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.
: 
: Just ANY sort of password protection scheme can be bypassed if you are
: able to boot the machine from a diskette. No matter if you use UNIX
: SVR4 or CP/M with a login add-on :-)

Not if the password protection scheme encrypts your hard drive. :)
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Subject: Re: IBM password
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