On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> Hello Professor:
>
> In my experience I have encountered some publicly-accessible computers
> running some programs in some libraries at colleges and universities. When
> I would try to get to the DOS prompt, or escape to the DOS shell, I would be
> prompted for a password. The result was that I could not get into DOS.
> I never asked anyone how this kind of setup works, because I was afraid that
> I would be suspected of being the kind of person who wants to hack the
> system <g>.
>
> The systems administrator at your university probably knows of ways to
> keep unauthorized persons from accessing the command line.
>
Unfortunately I AM the system administrator :)
Probably what you suggest is quite simple, I almost decided to write
a substitute of command.com just to load the packet driver and then launch
arachne.
Anyhow, could you please tell me who is the responsible of the cited
libraries or colleges, so that I can ask him which solutions are possible?
Thank You
Franco Bagnoli
Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata "G. Sansone"
Universita' di Firenze, Via S. Marta, 3 I-50139 Firenze, Italy
tel. +39 0554796422, fax: +39 055471787
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
