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Article #45459Re: Simple "password" application?
From: walt dixon
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1990 13:47
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1990 13:47
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In a previous posting Charles Allen writes:
>I'm looking for a "password" application. I want to be able to invoke
>a password dialog on demand, after an idle period, and at startup to
>discourage unwanted people from diddling with a Mac at work. Extreme
>security is not the point.
[some text deleted]
>This certainly sounds simple to me. Just pop up a modal dialog box
>asking for the password, then exit (or switch yourself out?) when it's
>given. The password could be set in a resource in ResEdit (again, no
>extreme security measures are necessary). Any takers?
I'm not quite sure what extreme security is, but I would classify any
protection program that can be circumvented using the programmers switch
as insecure.
Walt Dixon {arpa: dixon@crd.ge.com }
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!crdgw1!sagittarius!dixon From: dixon@sagittarius.crd.ge.com (walt dixon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Simple "password" application? Message-ID: <5077@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 2 Feb 90 13:47:15 GMT References: <3055@pur-phy> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: dixon@sagittarius.crd.ge.com (walt dixon) Organization: General Electric Corp. R&D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 23