[4403] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Win3.1/Win95 desktop security? (look at www.norman.com)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Heiser)
Thu Feb 13 13:24:25 1997
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 08:57:47 -0500
From: Jay Heiser <Jay@homecom.com>
Reply-To: jay@homecom.com
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Yes, there are products that do exactly what you asked for. Take a look
at www.norman.com and check out the access control product. Deutsche
Telekom bought 100,000 of these to lock down all their user desktops.
BVE wrote:
>
> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 13:35:14 +0000
> From: Kevin Townsend <kev-rhea@mail.zynet.co.uk>
>
> But there are products available that put serious desktop security onto
> both 3.1x and 95 - in some cases rivaling NTW but at a fraction of the
> cost. So you can keep the business investment in existing training and
> applications, but gain the desktop security you need.
>
> Any that you can't bypass during bootup with Ctrl-C, or stick your own boot
> disk in, and see the whole file system with no privs???
>
> ..And once you've authenticated yourself properly, do they prevent the user
> from changing system configuration settings?
>
> These problems, especially the latter, have plagued me for some time now. If
> you have a solution, I'd love to see it!!
>
> -- Bill Van Emburg
> Phone: 908-235-2335 Quadrix Solutions, Inc.
> Fax: 908-235-2336 (bve@quadrix.com)
> Check out http://yourtown.com! (http://quadrix.com)
> "You do what you want, and if you didn't, you don't"
--
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