jltaylor@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeff Taylor) (01/25/91)
I would like to have some little gizmo-program to lock my macSE while I am away from the machine. Something like XLOCK (from X Windows) would be excellent, but the program needs only to lock my machine from people and maybe blank the screen so they cannot see my display. A passworded system would be most excellent. Any leads ??? Thanks for your help. Please reply by e-mail ... I will post a summary if anyone is interested. Jeff Taylor jltaylor@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu
jlc@atux01.UUCP (Jim Collymore) (01/29/91)
You may want to try buying "After Dark" from Berkely Systems. Once you've loaded it in, and re-booted, you can go into the control panel and set it to password protect. So that no one can disengage the screen saver without the password. I've never tried that on my machine, but for you it sounds like it's the feature you want. Jim Collymore
cy@dbase.A-T.COM (Cy Shuster) (02/02/91)
In article <166@atux01.UUCP> jlc@atux01.UUCP (Jim Collymore) writes: > >You may want to try buying "After Dark" from Berkely Systems. Once you've >loaded it in, and re-booted, you can go into the control panel and set it >to password protect. So that no one can disengage the screen saver without >the password. I've never tried that on my machine, but for you it sounds >like it's the feature you want. > > Jim Collymore Unfortunately, even though After Dark isn't advertised as a maximum security system, the glaring hole in the password feature is that it's not required at boot time: all you need to do is reboot the machine, and away you go! It should prompt you for the password when the INIT is loaded, IMHO. --Cy-- cy@dbase.a-t.com
straka@cbnewsc.att.com (richard.j.straka) (02/07/91)
In article <1991Feb1.224659.12501@dbase.A-T.COM> cy@dbase.UUCP (Cy Shuster) writes: |In article <166@atux01.UUCP| jlc@atux01.UUCP (Jim Collymore) writes: ||You may want to try buying "After Dark" from Berkely Systems. Once you've ||loaded it in, and re-booted, you can go into the control panel and set it ||to password protect. So that no one can disengage the screen saver without ||the password. I've never tried that on my machine, but for you it sounds |Unfortunately, even though After Dark isn't advertised as a maximum |security system, the glaring hole in the password feature is that |it's not required at boot time: all you need to do is reboot the machine, |and away you go! | |It should prompt you for the password when the INIT is loaded, IMHO. Actually, the init will kick in and prevent booting off of the "normal" system if the Mac was turned off WHILE after dark was active (read "pulled the plug"). It works, but that's not the way I want to turn off my machine on a normal basis. Of course this cannot prevent one from walking up with a bootable floppy in hand, ... -- Richard Straka AT&T Bell Laboratories, IH-6K311 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- UUCP: att!ihlpf!straka MSDOS: All the wonderfully arcane INTERNET: straka@att.ATT.COM syntax of UNIX(R), but without the power.
schorsch@oxy.edu (Brent William Schorsch) (02/17/91)
silverlining (by LaCie) will let you password protect some/all of your hard drive (by using true SCSI partitioning & passwd on each partition) -Brent