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- SuperLock
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- The Amiga Security Device
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- (c) Copyright 1991 by Jonathan Potter
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- Recently, at the Sydney World of Commodore show, I caught two kids trying
- to copy a commercial program off a demonstration computer's hard drive onto
- their own floppy disk. I thought at the time, wouldn't it be good if there was
- some way to disable the floppy drives, to prevent this sort of thing, but
- still leave the hard drive active for demonstration purposes.
-
- Introducing ...... SuperLock! The security program for the Amiga.
-
- SuperLock allows you to disable any or all of your disk drives, hard drives
- and other storage devices. It also allows you to disable the keyboard and the
- mouse, for added security.
-
- SuperLock requires the arp.library to be present in the LIBS: directory.
-
- When you run SuperLock, a window appears, prompting you to enter a password.
- If this is the first time you have run SuperLock, the password is "password"
- (without the quotes and in lower-case; passwords ARE case-sensitive).
-
- All the other gadgets on the SuperLock window are inactive until the correct
- password is entered. Enter the password and press return.
-
- SuperLock then lists all the devices present in the system. To select a
- device for locking, simply select it. Select it again to toggle locking off.
- If there are more than ten devices present in the system, you can use the
- slider gadget to move through them.
-
- The gadgets at the bottom of the window labelled Keyboard and Mouse allow
- you to enable or disable keyboard and mouse locking.
-
- There are six gadgets at the right of the window. These are :
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- All..... selects all devices for locking.
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- None.... turns locking off for all devices.
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- Toggle.. reverses the state of all devices.
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- Lock.... enters locked mode. More about this later.
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- Save.... saves the configuration. More about this later.
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- Quit.... exits the program.
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- When you have selected what you want to be locked, select the Lock gadget.
- window disappears, and you will find that your choices have taken effect. All
- the devices you selected to be locked will become non-DOS disks, and cannot
- be read from or written to. If you chose to lock the keyboard, you will not
- be able to type anything. And if you chose to lock the mouse, the mouse will
- be moved to the bottom-right of the screen, out of the way, and you will not
- be able to shift it.
-
- To return to the SuperLock window from the locked state, press the Left Amiga,
- Right Amiga and L keys at the same time (this works even if you chose to lock
- the keyboard). The SuperLock window will appear, and you will be asked to
- enter the password again.
-
- At this point, the keyboard and mouse will become unlocked if they were locked
- before. You now have 15 seconds to enter the correct password and press return.
- If you fail to do so, the SuperLock window will disappear and the keyboard
- and mouse will be locked again (if they were selected for locking).
-
- If you click the close gadget on the window without entering the password,
- SuperLock will returned to the locked state. You cannot remove SuperLock from
- the system without the correct password.
-
- Entering the correct password causes all locked devices to be unlocked as
- well. At this point you may choose new devices for locking, or quit the program.
- Once the password has been entered, the close gadget will actually quit the
- program, rather than returning to the locked state, as described above.
-
- SuperLock can save your choices to a file in the S: directory. If you click
- the Save gadget, a file will be created called SuperLock.cfg. This contains
- the password (in encrypted form), the names of all the devices you have selected
- for locking, and the locked state of the keyboard and mouse.
-
- To change the password from the default "password", simply edit the password
- string at the top of the window and click the Save gadget. From now on, your
- new password will be required to activate/deactivate SuperLock.
-
- If you have your choices saved (with the Save gadget), you may elect to run
- SuperLock from the startup-sequence with the -a flag. That is,
-
- SuperLock -a
-
- The -a flag causes SuperLock to enter locked state immediately upon being
- run; it does not need a password entered until you press the Amiga-Amiga-L
- sequence.
-
- SuperLock runs fine from the Workbench. It automatically detaches itself from
- the CLI, so you do not need run or runback.
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- SuperLock is freely distributable copyrighted software. If you use it, you
- might like to consider making a small donation to the author.
-
- To contact the author, write to :
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- Jonathan Potter
- P.O. Box 289
- Goodwood, SA 5034
- Australia
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- Phone : (08) 2932788
- FidoNET : 3:680/829
- Internet : jpotter@itd.adelaide.edu.au
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