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- From: taaustin@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
- Subject: Amiga multi-user system, if you still need it
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.234217.1@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
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- Sender: usenet@mercury.unt.edu (UNT USENet Adminstrator)
- Organization: University of North Texas
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:42:17 GMT
-
- A few days ago there was a fellow trying to set up a multi-user
- system on an Amiga for his church. I e-mailed a response but
- also mentioned another program that I could not recall... Well, I
- have found it. If you are still reading the postings, this just
- might be EXACTLY what you are looking for. It is located on wuarchive
- and probably on physik.
-
- the readme file follows:
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-
-
- AmiStation - The Amiga Workstation
- ----------------------------------
- Do you get tired of your roomates always using your computer? Are you
- afraid that your children or coworkers might accidentally destroy your data
- or beat your hi-score at Tetris while you're not around? AmiStation
- provides a way of not only protecting your machine from casual users, but
- also gives your Amiga the look and feel of a hi-cost workstation machine.
-
- AmiStation is a security program that restricts use, and can also track it.
- Each "trusted" user is assigned a login name and password. At bootup they
- are presented with a login panel, ala a NeXT workstation where they must
- enter their assigned username and password. The system then records the
- date and time of their login, so if someone screws up your system you'll
- know who to blame.
-
-
- Requirements:
- -------------
- KickStart 2.x is REQUIRED!
- Has been tested on A500/A2000/A3000 and with the 68000,6030,68040
-
-
- Purpose:
- --------
- o Provide somewhat of a multi-user environment
- o Make your Amiga look a little bit more professional looking
- o Limit machine access (to the less knowledgeable user)
-
-
- Features:
- ---------
- o Login panel (ala NeXT) at startup, unique username and password
- are required to access machine.
- o Logs user's access
- o Utility to add/remove/edit users (password protected)
- o Finger utility to display user information
- o Unix like user data
- o Backdoor maintenance password
- o Passwords are encrypted within the data files
-
-
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- end of transcript
-
- Hope this helps...
-
-