[1284] in WWW Security List Archive
RE: Re[2]: SECURITY ALERT: Password protection bug in Netscape 2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Brennen)
Wed Dec 20 13:06:28 1995
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 09:10:55 -0600 (CST)
From: Michael Brennen <mbrennen@fni.com>
To: Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199512192359.PAA26703@imail1.microsoft.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Tue, 19 Dec 1995, Paul Leach wrote:
> to other users. In addition, Windows can be configured to require a
> password to unlock the machine if it is ever left idle for more than a
> few minutes, thus protecting the user even while logged in.
Which Windows? 3.1[1]* had a password protected screensaver -- and all it
took to get around it was Ctrl/Alt/Del, Reset or Off/On.
Does Win95 have a startup level password (and I don't know because I don't
run Win95) to prevent access at all unless a valid password is entered?
Michael
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