- Passwords
- Posted by Nowhere on February 6th, 2006
I have a start up password on xp. When you turn on the machine, you must
enter a password. Can this be by-passed? How can I increase security. Thank
you.
- Posted by Vaxius on February 6th, 2006
On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 07:04:57 +0000, Nowhere wrote:
Well, for one thing bypassing the login password would definitely not help
with security.
- Posted by lgr_joly@yahoo.com on February 6th, 2006
With physical access to a machine, it is easy to bypass passwords. This
is true for XP and UNIX/Linux. To increase security, restrict physical
access to the machines.
Kind regards
Ludovic Joly
- Posted by Gerard Bok on February 6th, 2006
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 07:04:57 -0000, "Nowhere"
<Nowhere@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
If your PC supports it: bios password. And make sure that your
bios uses ATA password protection.
On the other side of things, you should be very carefull to make
adequate backups :-)
--
Kind regards,
Gerard Bok
- Posted by H.Marcell@gmail.com on February 6th, 2006
Gerard Bok wrote:
Maybe you fund something with google an this words:
autoadminlogon registry
or
automatic user logon
I wrote an article, but it is in german:
http://www.holy-infos.de/de/page/art...tzer_anmdg.htm
- Posted by Gerard Bok on February 6th, 2006
On 6 Feb 2006 07:02:59 -0800, "H.Marcell@gmail.com"
<H.Marcell@gmail.com> wrote:
I read the original message as
- How safe is XP's native password security and
- How can I improve on that ?
:-)
--
Kind regards,
Gerard Bok
- Posted by H.Marcell@gmail.com on February 6th, 2006
Gerard Bok wrote:
Maybe you fund something with google an this words:
autoadminlogon registry
or
automatic user logon
I wrote an article, but it is in german:
http://www.holy-infos.de/de/page/art...tzer_anmdg.htm
- Posted by (admins) privacyoffshore on February 7th, 2006
You may want to look into a program like Drive Crypt or one of the free
disk encryption utilities out there, you can by-pass your bios or
windows passwords easily enough if you want, but you still need some
type of protection if you keep important data on your computer.
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