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- From: jemenake@zeus.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: WARNING!:WATCH OUT SYSTEM PASSWORDS ARE ABOUT!)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.205456.197473@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 20:54:56 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.113528.1609@dct.ac.uk>
- Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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- mcsbc2gw@dct.ac.uk writes:
- >WARNING!
- >If your computer has a setup program which you boot at Run-Time,
- >and it gives you the option of System Security.
- >
- >Then Don't give it a password that you can't remember!
- >I did and it gave me nothing but hell since I had to remove the battery
- >from the CMOS.
- >This is a warning!
-
- Some motherboards have a DIP siwtch that allows you to disable the
- password. This freaks the professors out when I have to go work on their
- machine. If they're not there and I have to configure their machine,
- I'll just take their password out and leave them a note that they need
- to re-enter it.
-
- It probably makes them re-think that they thought was secure. :-)
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