From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 4 20:54:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-56-129.knology.net [24.214.56.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07E2337B718 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 20:54:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f254sHk63608; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 22:54:17 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 22:54:16 -0600 From: David Kelly To: Tony Landells Cc: MisteraSturno@worldnet.att.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT: MacOS X (was Re: Can you recommend... ) Message-ID: <20010304225416.A59621@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <200103050433.PAA18084@tungsten.austclear.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103050433.PAA18084@tungsten.austclear.com.au>; from ahl@austclear.com.au on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 03:33:00PM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 03:33:00PM +1100, Tony Landells wrote: > > The other thing where MacOS X loses at the moment is that it > doesn't have something like BIOS passwords and boot orders, so > I can't stop people from rebooting from a CD, for example, to > get access to my (unencrypted but still important) files. 3rd party utilities have been the ones to provide this feature on Macs as the device driver for the volume is loaded as part of the mount process. Some have password protected only the driver, others encrypt the entire fileystem. MacOS X PB seems to prefer to run in an HFS+ fs, where I expect the 3rd party device driver situation will continue. Didn't look too closely yet on my Powerbook but think I saw a utility from Apple for password locking the entire thing. No idea how secure that is or isn't. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message