OpenEuphoria

Re: small password app?

• Posted by Louis at cwshop.com Oct 18, 2003
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1.  I believe startup spawns applications and keeps running.  Windows would=
 come up behind your window which could simply be moved to one side.
2.  Ctl-Alt-Del will bring up the task manager.  From there it would be=
 very easy to simply kill the Euphoria application.

You can use the policy editor as mentioned in another post, but an easier=
 solution is to utilize the bootup password in the computer.  Without the=
 password, no one will be able to even boot up into windows, or even boot=
 up on a floppy disk.

Louis.

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On 10/17/2003 at 2:56 PM DB wrote:

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>
>Hi,
>
>I'm familiar with programming, but I don't know much
>about Euphoria.  I want to build a tiny application, and
>I'd like to try Euphoria.
>
>My plan is to build a very simple, basic app to password
>protect a Win 95/98 machine.  They have "login" input boxes
>but the user can just click 'Cancel' to by-pass the 
>security.  Maybe there's ways around this but I can't
>get it to work.
>
>Here's what I'm thinking:
>- build a little app, and make it a stand-alone executable
>- when Windows is started, run the app in Startup 
>- a modal 'input box' type object would appear, and prompt for
>  a password.  If the user enters the password correctly, the
>  object disappears, and Windows continues startup.
>- (This might be the tricky part)....If the user can't get the
>  password in 5 tries, the object disappears, and Windows 
>  shuts down (or even re-starts or closes all programs)
>- Alternatively, the input box could just keep popping up until
>  the user gets the password, as the password will be stored
>  away from this workstation.
>
>The computer this will be used on is very ordinarily set-up, there's
>no multiple boots, multiple users, multiple profiles, etc.
>
>Has something like this been built?  If not, is this a feasible idea?
>(i.e. does Euphoria support 'input boxes'?)
>
>Thanks very much for any ideas or advice!
>
>DB
>
>
>
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