Password protection

[Stacy Pober]

> From: David Merchant <merchant at bayou.com>
> I forgot to change the subject line.  Also, after some emails in response I
> realize I need to add some more information: we don't have an NT network
> here, no NT workstations, no NT servers.  We are just now getting people
> upgraded from DOS and Win3.1 (on 286 and 386 machines) to Win95 (replacing
> mother boards and adding memory so we can do that).

Have you looked in the BIOS for your options there?  A lot of  PC's 
have  a BIOS option for setting a startup (boot) password.  No 
password = no booting up the computer.

Even if you don't have that option, almost every BIOS has a setup password 
option, and if you're having problems with students accidentally or 
deliberately changing or deleting important things on your computer, I 
would recommend you set the BIOS to boot from hard drive first and then 
put a password on the BIOS settings so that this cannot be changed  by 
casual users.

This is from that long list of "Things I Learned the Hard Way".     :-)


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