Please Follow These Instructions Step By Step For Proper Installation of the Registered version.
(1) Make sure you have removed any other copies of MacPassword‚Ñ¢ from your System folder on your startup volume. As noted above. This is a crucial step. If you fail to remove previous versions of MacPassword‚Ñ¢ properly, you may be locked out of your system. Please drag any old version of MacPassword‚Ñ¢ to the Trash can, choose "Empty Trash" from the Finder's "Special" menu and restart your Macintosh.
(2) Print out the file called “Personalization Keycode” located in the !MacPassword™ Manuals Folder on the distribution disk you received. You’ll need this keycode later on in step #5 below.
(3) Unlock the write protect tab on the MacPassword™ distribution disk you received from me and insert it into one of your disk drives. Double-click on the icon titled “MacPassword™ Utility”.
(4) Once the program is running, you should see a dialog on your screen similar to this:
 
(5) As the dialog requests, please enter the correct keycode , your name and company name into the appropriate text boxes in the dialog. Note, both name and company must be filled in or else the personalization will not be able to continue. Click on the “OK” button or press RETURN when you are through. If you got here by mistake, you can use the “Cancel” button to back out. If all the information is correct, MacPassword™ will be unlocked to the full unlimited life version.
(6) You should now see a password dialog. Please enter “password” (all lower case, no quotes) in the text entry box and click on the “OK” button.
(7) You are now faced with a window containing information regarding recovery procedures. Since all we want to do at this time is quit… choose the “Quit” option from the “File” menu and you will be returned to the Finder Desktop.
Note: Please don’t distribute your registered copy of MacPassword™, only the “Demo” version. Thank you for proving that the Shareware concept works by supporting my efforts!
Now, continue on with the installation as if you were installing for the “Demo” version…
Installing The “Demo” Version
Please Follow These Instructions Step By Step For Proper Installation of the Demo version.
(1) Make sure you have an original copy of MacPassword‚Ñ¢ and this documentation archived off to a floppy disk and print this documentation out so you have something to refer to during the remainder of the installation of MacPassword‚Ñ¢. In addition, if you anticipate that you could forget your password, please make sure you have a current backup of your hard disk drive. MacPassword‚Ñ¢ will not harm any information on your hard disk, but if you forget your password, you will be locked out just as effectively as anyone else!
If you are NOT using System 7.0 then proceed with step 2a. If you ARE using System 7.0, then proceed with step 2b
System 6.0 Installation
(2a) MacPassword™ has to be placed in your System folder. Drag the file called !MacPassword™ (and for you registered users... all other files contained in the folder called “Put in System Folder”) over to your System folder. Open up the Control Panel desk accessory (provided with your Macintosh system software and always available from the Apple menu) and select the icon on the left labeled “!MacPassword™”. A password dialog will be presented to you. Please enter the phrase “password” (exactly as shown here all in lower case without the quotation marks) and click OK or press RETURN. This will allow you access to the rest of the MacPassword™ utility.
Now proceed to step 3…
System 7.0 Installation
(2b) MacPassword™ has to be placed in the Extensions folder located within your System folder. Drag the file called “!MacPassword™” over to your Extensions folder. For you registered users... copy all other files contained in the folder called “Put in System Folder” to the System folder at this time too. Now, click once on the “!MacPassword™” icon in the Extensions folder and choose “Make Alias” from the File menu. When complete, drag this new alias file to the Control Panel folder which is also located in the System folder. Open up MacPassword™ by choosing the Control Panels item from the Apple menu and double clicking on the “!MacPassword file”. A password dialog will be presented to you. Please enter the phrase “password” (exactly as shown here all in lower case without the quotation marks) and click OK or press RETURN. This will allow you access to the rest of the MacPassword™ utility.
Continue Installation…
(3) The first thing to do is turn on MacPassword™. Click on the checkboxes labeled “MacPassword™ ON” and “Show Icon at Startup“ so that they look like this:
 
All of the other options should become “undimmed” now and ready for your next action.
(4) Next, you need to change the password from the default to something you will remember (yet hard enough so others won’t be able to guess it). Do so by clicking the button labeled “Change Password”.
 
This option will present a dialog box to allow you to change the password. Type in the current password (“password” remember…) into the area titled “Old Password”... press the TAB or RETURN key to move to each of the following fields and type your new password in the the area titled “New Password” as well as into the next area called “New Password Again”. A password can be 255 characters in length (but has to be at least 6 characters long…) and any combination of upper and lower case. Click on the OK button to accept your changes or click on the Cancel button to cancel this operation.
Note: Don’t forget your password! If you have a bad memory, write it down somewhere where others can’t find it. If you forget it, there is nothing you or I can do to fix things. I recommend you memorize it as quickly as possible.
(5) Now, you have to let MacPassword™ know which folders you want protected on which volumes. To do this, you have to move to the next “screen” of options. At the top of the Control Panel window, you’ll see five icons. Click on the one that looks like this:
 
Now you should see a different selection of options. The easiest way to select which folders to protect is to click the “Volumes…” button.
 
A dialog is presented to you that will allow you to select a volume. Select your boot volume (ie. the one that contains your System folder…) and click the ‘OK’ button. If you have multiple volumes on line and want to protect them all, then go through this dialog as many times as necessary to select all the volumes you want protected.
(6) Now, click the close box on the Control Panel to put MacPassword™ away, You will see one final dialog notifying you that your changes will not be effective until you restart your Macintosh. Click the “OK” button to continue.
(7) Congratulations! You have installed MacPassword™ and configured it for your particular system. Now follow the last step and then read the “What Happens Next” section of this documentation to understand how the Startup procedure of your Macintosh has changed.
(8) The last step is to restart your Macintosh. Choose “Restart” from the Finder’s Special menu and read the next section. Now follow the last step and then read the “What Happens Next” section of this documentation to understand how the Startup procedure of your Macintosh has changed.
If you’re a registered user, you may decide to enable some of the other features of the product such as virus protection, screen saver protection, sound file playback, log file activity, etc. Please refer to the appropriate section of the manual that describes how to activate those features.
What Happens Next?
If you’ve followed the installation instructions, you should be looking at the MacPassword™ password entry dialog (the same one you saw when you were changing options). This is where you will be each time you restart your Macintosh.
Now type in the same password that you entered during the installation procedure (step #5) and click the ‘OK’ button. The startup sequence of your Macintosh will now continue normally and run your Startup application (typically this will be the Finder unless you’ve changed it).
Easy, huh? This is all most of you will ever want to do with MacPassword‚Ñ¢. If you want to explore more of the details, read on...
Levels of Protection
There are three levels of protection that you can use with MacPassword™. The first level is the only one available to people using the “Demo” version. The other two levels become available when you have registered your copy and obtained the correct personalization keycode from me to unlock MacPassword™.
The first level of protection is the same as what was used in previous versions of MacPassword‚Ñ¢. That is, your volume/folders are marked invisible, locked and protected and are unavailable to casual intrusion.
The second level of protection is available when you turn on the checkbox labeled “Lock Protected Volumes” in screen one. This enables a 'hard' software lock of each volume that contains folders to be protected. When a volume is locked, people can not access your Macintosh from a startup floppy disk. This should be left on for maximum protection.
Note: this feature and the Virtual Memory feature of System 7.0 should not be used together as they conflict. If you must use Virtual memory, then please leave this option turned off.
The third level of protection is available when you turn on the checkbox labeled “High Security Protection” in screen one. With this feature enabled, people logging on in “Guest” mode, will see your protected folders in a dimmed state. If they try to open them, they will get a message advising them they don’t have privileges to see inside. Likewise, if they are inside an application and attempt to open a file by issuing an “Open…” command from the File menu, the Standard File Dialog will present protected folders as dimmed and inaccessible also. This is similar to the kind of protection you get on an AppleShare® file server. Your protected folders will look like this under System 6.0:
 
Protection characteristics under System 7.0 are different to reflect changes in this new operating system. When “High Level Protection” is on under 7.0, the folders will be invisible in the Finder's windows as well as within the Standard Get/Put file dialog. In addition the System 7.0 Finder's “Find” command will not be able to search within protected folders. Your protected folders will look like this under System 7.0:
 
Short Theory of Operation
This is a short technical explanation of how MacPassword™ works for those techies out there that are curious. When MacPassword™ is loaded into memory (as an ‘INIT’), the first thing it does is load its resident code in the System heap and asks the Shutdown Manager to insert it into the Shutdown queue. Next MacPassword™ asks you for your password. If you can't get it right after three tries, the Shutdown manager is called to close operations back down. At this time, the resident code portion springs to life and reads in a list of the folders you want to protect from its resource file. It proceeds through each entry in the folder list and protects them.
If the correct password is entered, then the utility will reverse what happened during the Shutdown procedure and unprotect all the files that were protected. If specified, the virus protection code is loaded in as well as additional “Guest” protection code. It will then allow the system to continue a normal Startup sequence.
Safety!
Since only legal HFS File manager calls are used, there is no danger of MacPassword™ damaging any of the files or folders on your hard disk drive. If something happens that you don’t understand, refer to the section titled “Hints and Help” at the end of this manual to look for information to help you out otherwise contact me at the above address or network addresses for assistance.
