
NEED HELP DISABLING QB COMMANDS:IMMEDIATE REP. NEEDED
: >I am the systems analyst for our school system..In our Qbasic class we
: >have been having security troubles because of the commands "kill", "name",
: >and "shell"
: >is there anyway to disable these commands????
: >
: >Off the subject of Qb, does anybody know how to make it so a computer will
: >not boot on a disk unless it has a certain name??(We need to be able to
: >boot off of floppies, but we don't want the kids to be able to.)
: Not as far as I know (but on the other hand, I've been wrong before.
: One way I can think of stopping the little rug rats from lousing up the
: system is this:
: 1) Create a backup directory and call it something really wierd.
: 2) PK-ZIP all the important files to a single file in that directory, using
: the switches for password protection and maximum compression.
: 3) Keep another copy of that directory someplace else (assuming you still
: have room)
: 4) Attribute the archive HRSA.
: anywhere but home.
: Kids are real clever. If you try to implement security by disabling
: commands, they'll still manage rto find a way around it.
: As far as being able to boot off the floppies, some BIOS routines have a
: switch for boot sequence to look at C: first, then A:.
: Maybe that'll help.
: Gregory Pius
: IBM Boca Raton
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