PASSWORD README NOTES & SHAREWARE NOTICE 04/9/90 This is an update to a previous version of password that I released in August of 1989. The previous version (v1.41p) was public domain, this version is SHAREWARE. If you desire you may continue to use version 1.41p as public domain. Note that this version of password uses a better password encoding algorithm and previous s:password files are incompatible. A list of the changes are at the end of this file. If you use this SHAREWARE version, you should send me $25 as payment for the program. In return, you will receive a custom version, with a maintenance password of your choice. The maintenance password of this SHAREWARE version is 'shareware'. If anyone has these documents, they have access to your computer using the 'shareware' maintenance password. Include a 5 to 10 character word that you want your personal maintenance password to be. Your personal copy of password will not display the annoying SHAREWARE notice like this version does. If you include a disk with copies of your current startup-sequence and startupII files, I will hard-code part of these files into your password program to make your computer even more secure. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This will be complicated. How's that statement for a program. But it has to be complicated for security. Making the Amiga secure is impossible. But with work, you can make it complicated enough to discourage anyone from being able to boot your system. Actually booting the system is easy, but if you set your system up properly using this password program, you will need the correct password to obtain full access to the Amiga. To really install this program correctly, you need to be quite familiar with the CLI and your startup-sequence. This program can be better, but then it loses portability to every Amiga. Install the program and change the password. View the password file. It looks like a bunch of garbage. Then change the password to something else and then back to the original password. View the file again, it's different! Since I wrote the program and am very familiar with CLI and batch files, I can think of many ways to get around the program (which I won't totally describe). But real knowledge is required to circumvent the program, do your kids or wife (or husband) or friends have this knowledge? There is a back-door into this program. There is a maintenance password that will always work no matter if the user password is known or not. This means that if anyone else has these documents, they have the maintenance password and access to your computer. See password.doc for more information on the maintenance password. Making the SHAREWARE payment will get you a copy of the program with a maintenance password of your choice. Please send the SHAREWARE payment if you use this program. SHAREWARE payments insure that programmers will continue to support the Amiga with new and interesting programs. Good luck, and feel free to contact me if you need any help getting setup. George Kerber 19756 E. Linvale Drive Aurora, CO 80013 303-620-2027 Compuserve: 74010,2132 FYI: I recently got divorced and discovered that my wife had been in my computer deleting files and gathering information. Although she no longer has access to my computer, no one else will ever use my computer without my permission or against me.... Version 1.42p Changes from 1.21p -------------------------------- Some changes were made between the previous public domain version and this shareware version. You cannot just replace this new version with your old version. 1. The biggest change is that this version is no longer Public Domain. This version is SHAREWARE. See the section above on how to register and receive your custom version. 2. Password no longer executes the s:startupII file, instead it uses s:startup2. It is not necessary that this file exist, but if it does, it will be executed. 3. Password no longer creates and assigns the ENV: directory. This must be accomplished by the startup2 file. See the password.doc file. 4. Password will execute 'c:setclock load' for you if the file exists in your SYS:c directory. If you are using this command to read your battery clock to your system clock, you no longer have to execute it before executing password. 5. It is no longer necessary to assign your system disk before executing password in your startup-sequence. Instead you must specify the disk you wish to be assigned as SYS: as an option to the password program when you execute it from your startup- sequence. See the password.doc file for more information.