On Wednesday 16 March 2005 10:31, Christopher Evans wrote:
> What type of password program is this to work like, or say from
> config.sys or autoexec.bat?
There isn't any other way I think.. (optionally we can use a password program 
located in the MBR, but that isn't 'clean' I think... and it's impossible to 
write a log file..)
By the way, when using a program like that it is important to remember about 
the SWITCHES command in CONFIG.SYS to disallow the possibility of bypassing 
starting files just by pressing F5/F8...

> There is http://bbx.flnet.org/nxdos/password.zip which just returns NZ
> error level for good password entry and designed to run from
> autoexec.bat and you can have it run reboot if errorlevel is 0.

Well, I'm _not_ searching any password program, because for my own use I have 
the mine, I am just interested if other people are using (or would using) 
such software, because if there are a lot of users needing a password 
program, it could be worth to think about including into the FreeDOS 
distribution a password-like program. Linux have that function natively, why 
not FreeDOS? - of course FreeDOS can give only root access or none access, 
but for a single-user machine (most of DOS PC are single user..) that's not a 
problem.

Fox


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