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Article #10516Stacker- password option?
From: Artificial Intelligence
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:42
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:42
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Does anyone know about a password option in the versions 1 and 2 of Stacker? I've heard the new V3 is supposed to have a password option. However, many months ago when I was looking through the STACKER.COM file from V1.10, I noticed text such as "Enter password". I disassembled code near the text and discovered code that did print the text and take input. I then tried finding any code that called this segment, with no luck. Version 2 also has the "Enter password" text and code which prints it and accepts input, but I've not traced any code that calls this area of the program in V2, either. Has anyone else noticed this? The first and second versions are not supposed to support passwords protection of Stacker volumes; their manuals make no reference to this. Do the versions 1 and 2 of Stacker actually have an undocumented password option? Or was this code perhaps an abortive attempt at adding a password option that they never implemented until V3? Thanks- Aaron -- Lifetimes come and go, memories pass and fade; The frailties of carbon based life shall yield To the superior permanence of silicon...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!olivea!decwrl!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!sage.cc.purdue.edu!syserror From: syserror@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Artificial Intelligence) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Stacker- password option? Message-ID: <BxxzJE.DFo@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 19 Nov 92 02:42:49 GMT Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News) Organization: The Superior Silicon Race Lines: 23