Prevent Insecure Booting Of Your Mac

Posted by pudge on Friday June 7, 2002 @01:01AM from the just-do-not-lose-your-password dept.

maxphunk writes "So you can boot anyone's Mac using a CD or (for newer machines) mount the hard drive using target disk mode. Therefore, your machine isn't secure, right? Stock, yes; otherwise, no. Apple has a neato utility described here that eliminates this problem and more, using Open Firmware Password Protection. I have installed it on my iBook (late 2001) and I am definitely pleased with the results." It requires Mac OS X 10.1 or greater, and prevents things like starting up in single user mode, verbose mode, resetting PRAM, and more.

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Re:BIOS Password. Big deal. by zrodney · 2002-06-07 09:10 · Score: 0, Troll

ha ha ha ha ha !!

I think the last line is the best:
"I am an apple service technician"

so mr apple guy, why did solaris, ibm, hp,
sgi, cray, and any other large system have
console access boot passwords then?

many of the older ones don't even have one
mouse button like your apple, so it must be
even better, right? less complicated.

ha ha ha ha

Its funny when the apple people believe their
own made up history -- and think the mistakes
were divine inspiration and good design.

* no second mouse button? GREAT!
* no boot password? FANTASTIC!
* fruity colors and transparency?