Re: At ease

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From: Les Ferch
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 08:00

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In <79532@ut-emx.uucp> ifbb657@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Douglas Floyd) writes:

>How secure is At Ease?  Is it possible for me to boot from a floppy to bypass
>it?  Does it lock your hard drive like Fileguard or Disklock?

At Ease is not meant to be a secure against people who really know what
they are doing. Rather, it is protection for the novice user to keep them
out of trouble.

You could run DiskLock as well to prevent accessing the hard drive if
booted from a floppy. At Ease does not provide that feature.

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