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Article #37355Re: Security System for Macs?
From: Danny Schwendener
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 1989 13:01
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 1989 13:01
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In article <314@lloyd.camex.uucp> kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg) writes: >Notes: =I don't know whether the system partition can be password > protected (never tried that) but I suspect it can. Guess I > should check. It can. If the entered password for a startup disk is wrong, the System will reboot. > =I don't know how secure it is. I have 2 partitions in a row The passwords are not written in plain on the disk, and therefore you cannot find them with a disk utility such as MacTools, FEdit, MacSnoop, etc. However, there is another trick to get them back, but as it requires some knowledge of the macintosh internals, only "Real Men" will find it out. In a business environment, the password protection is sufficiently secure to prevent unwanted access (and deletion) of your files. In an university... I don't know. -- Danny Schwendener ETH Macintosh Support
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!macman From: macman@ethz.UUCP (Danny Schwendener) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Security System for Macs? Message-ID: <771@ethz.UUCP> Date: 5 Feb 89 13:01:05 GMT References: <7028@pucc.Princeton.EDU> <314@lloyd.camex.uucp> Reply-To: macman@ethz.UUCP (Danny Schwendener) Organization: ETH Zuerich, Switzerland Lines: 21