Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!targon!gert From: gert@targon.UUCP (Gert Kanis) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: locking out a hard disk Summary: make your floppy station B: Keywords: harddisk msdos driveB security Message-ID: <635@targon.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 89 09:12:33 GMT References: <148@uwm.edu> Reply-To: gert@targon.UUCP (Gert Kanis) Followup-To: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Organization: Nixdorf Computer BV., DO, P.O. Box 29,Vianen, The Netherlands Lines: 26 In article <148@uwm.edu> datta@vacs.uwp.wisc.edu (David Datta) writes: >I am in the position of putting a machine with a hard disk out in a >public area. We do not want to give most people access to the hard >disk. > >The software needs to be able to prevent someone from just coming in >and booting up on a floppy version of DOS and then letting them have >access. >-- >-Dave datta@vacs.uwp.wisc.edu If you change your floppy station so it would be drive B: in stead of A: people could only boot from harddisk. DOS would look for (a floppy in) A: not find one and go on with C: . When the PC crashes sometime you have to take the trouble to change the hardware again to make your floppy drive A: so you can boot from it. BTW: It would be safer to take out your floppy station completely :-) +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | No more jokes they | Gert Kanis, SWP | | take to much space. | Nixdorf Computer BV, Postbus 29 | |----------------------| 4130 EA Vianen, Netherlands. | | I do not represent | E-mail : targon!gert@nluug.nl | | anyone elses opinion.| or ..uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!targon!gert | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+