After the recent discussion of firewire, I decided to try something I'd been wondering about... i.e.. firewire disk mode. I took a firewire cable, plugged it into the firewire 400 port on my G4powerbook12, held down the T key and hit the start key. Instead of the startup, I get a floating firewire symbol. I then started the ibook, and plugged the other end of the cable into the firewire port there. The powerbook pops up as a volume on the screen. That's great...or is it? I've got startup passwords, etc. set on the powerbook...but when it pops up as an external device this way...the whole disk is wide open and accessible...without any passwords being needed!
While this might be a way to recover data from a machine where someone has forgotten their password (or is there a way at that point to discover/replace their password if you knew where it is stored?) it scares me a bit. I put a password in place on that machine to give some protection against idle curiosity, etc. and safeguard data. This seems to avoid those protections. Or is there a way to setup firewire disk mode to require the entry of the password, just as booting the machine would require the password? Thanks in advance. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
