[squeak-dev] Squeak under the password

Hello. Is it possible to set a password like a "login". I mean when you're launching squeak - first of all you need to enter a password and only then you can work with your image.

Don't know if its been done. I've done web, not client authentication in Squeak.

Would likely take some lock down steps to disable programmer facilities:
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/518

Then you need to write some UI code that runs at startup to prompt for login:
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5892

Then you'd probably want some crypto to make sure you aren't storing
the passwords in the image. Wouldn't want some image/kernel hacker to
interrogate your .image file to find out the passwords.


On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Oleg Korsak
<[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hello. Is it possible to set a password like a "login". I mean when you're
> launching squeak - first of all you need to enter a password and only then
> you can work with your image.
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Why?

It certainly could be done, but it would require programming.

Personally I'd just put the image on an encrypted partition or use other operating system features to secure it (such as using a separate user with a non-public home folder/directory).

Gulik


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