Jonathan Dent wrote: > Dilwyn wrote: > > > I keep getting extra ideas for it, especially since Darrenm suggested > > > the 'more than one user' options. What started as a fairly simple > > > point, click and exec program has (like QDT I suspect) turned into > > > quite a project! > > Darren wrote: > > Yes, I suggested to Dil the ability to load different user log-ons, ie. > > entering different names and passwords would load each users preferences, > > ie. favourite games/utilitities on the desktop, as well as wallpaper or > > whatever. He went off scratching his head, and had a basic working example > > in a hour or so - quite amazing. Darren must be easily impressed, it was only a token effort which only just worked (in fact he didn't see the disaster I had with a bit later). It was my good luck he asked for something which needed so little change to existing code. In fact, the menu redesigns etc in Easyptr was harder than the extra code to write!
> > I'm looking forward to a working version to > > see how good it is, even some of the icons Dil has designed are fabulous. By mode 4 standards perhaps, even then, they're just standard Easyptr sprites. > Sounds interesting. I wonder if you have come up with a method of > storing passwords securely, that could be applicable to other applications > such as email etc. > > looking forward to seeing the finished thing No, passwords are stored coded so that you couldn't view them just by copying them to the screen, although anyone with a rudimentary programming knowledge could very easily decode it - after all, you only need rename a BOOT file or bootup from a floppy and Launchpad wouldn't load to start with (instant access to all the machine!)! It was meant to be a method of allowing different setups for different users rather than security as such, I only put passwords onto the logins since Darren had mentioned them and it needed only a little extra code to implement. The only slight snag as yet is that if you forget your password nobody can recover it for you, although I am working on an 'administrator' type login which would have access to passwords etc. It does seem a bit overkill for what started as a simple 'click on an icon to exec' program, though! To be honest, since anyone with a files menu can access all the hard disk anyway, there doesn't seem much point attempting secure passwords. -- Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.soft.net.uk/dj/index.html
