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EGPASS.DOC v1.01
04-07-86
Eric Gans
French Dep't UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90024
The password program PASS.COM affords a modest degree of
protection for users of systems that boot from a hard (i.e.
fixed) disk. By autoloading it on (cold) boot, you make it
impossible to get around the password without rebooting from the
floppy drive (and you need a floppy with system tracks to do it).
This should prevent casual pests from using your computer when
you're not around, although of course it won't stop the hackers.
The password must be eight letters long, and can contain any
printable character (lower-case will be folded to upper-case).
The original password is ... you guessed it, PASSWORD. The
enclosed file PASCH.COM can be used to change the password (don't
leave it on your disk!). Or you can change it less elegantly with
DDT etc. at 25F-266h.
Autoloading can be accomplished most simply by using CMDLN.
Or you can patch the CCP in SYSGEN, PUTSYS etc. & then write the
new image back to the system tracks of the hard disk. On the
Kaypro-10 the file is called PUTSYS.COM. The patch location is at
987h, the standard location of the CCP on all such programs.
987h --> 4 (number of characters)
988h --> 50h (=P)
989h --> 41h (=A)
98ah --> 53h (=S)
98bh --> 53h (=S)
98ch --> 0 (terminator)
The same patch can be placed on floppies (it requires a copy of
PASS on each disk).
NB -- On some systems a file autoloaded in this manner will be
run at each warm boot. The K-10 doesn't do this because the BIOS
warm boot routine zeroes the character count byte at CCP+7. If
your BIOS doesn't do this you should patch it, unless you want to
enter passwords all day long.