anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) (01/30/91)
Seems to me that under version 1.0, there was a program you
could run that would disable the keyboard until a password
was entered (despite an evident chicken/egg problem there :-).
This widgie let you go away for a while without either logging
out or leaving a kind of gaping security hole. Does anyone
know if this thing has yet been updated (I gather the old one
does not run under 2.0), or failing that, of the existence of
a comparable facility? Thanks.
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Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888drin@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Adrian Smith) (02/10/91)
anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes: > > Seems to me that under version 1.0, there was a program you > could run that would disable the keyboard until a password > was entered (despite an evident chicken/egg problem there :-). > This widgie let you go away for a while without either logging > out or leaving a kind of gaping security hole. Does anyone > know if this thing has yet been updated (I gather the old one > does not run under 2.0), or failing that, of the existence of > a comparable facility? Thanks. > I've seen the 2.0 version of Lock running on a machine on campus here, and i can probably get my hands on it. If nobody else knows of a site it's available on, I'll ftp it to an archive (probably cs.orst.edu) and let you know.. As for it not working under 2.0, that's very true. It does some nasty things, like make you do an NMI shutdown. It freezes the entire machine, and can only be killed by powering down... -drin