27 Mar
2001
27 Mar
'01
1:12 a.m.
Before MacOS 9.x password protection there was a nasty access control
application called At Ease. It went REALLY low level to keep you from
screwing around with things, if a disk is protected with at ease, the only
way to get at it is booting from another disk and updating the hard disk
drivers. Foolproof is a similar, thrid party application, and there is also
a program (Disklock perhaps?) which locks the drive WAY down, you can't even
mount it if you boot from another disk. If the disk is protected with
Foolproof or, more likely, At Ease, you'll need to reinstall the OS if you
don't have the password. If it is protected with an application like
Disklock (i.e. it doesn't show up on the desktop when booting from another
disk) your only recourse is to completely reformat and reinstall the OS.
----- Original Message -----
From: <SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com To:
<classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Sent: Monday, March
26, 2001 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: Mac SE/30
In a message dated 3/26/01 3:07:26 PM Central Standard
Time, azog(a)azog.org
writes:
<< I think I recall seeing somewhere that you can bypass extensions on
bootup
by pressing a shift key, but that didn't work, so
I assume that this
isn't
an extension, but something intergral into the OS
itself... >
no password schemes are in the os itself. try holding down the left shift
key
again as soon as you see the happy mac. if its system
7 or higher, it will
say extensions disabled. if that don't work, you'll need to find a system
floppy to boot from so you can mount the hard drive and take a look
around.