Acer 4670, 4270, 5670 manual Set Supervisor/User Password, Enter, Disabled

Parameter	Description	Option
Set HDD Password	When shown as [Locked], the hard drive	Enter
	password currently can not be changed
	or disabled.
	To change or disable it, turn off the
	system and enter Setup immediately after
	turning it back on.
	Press [Enter] to input change, or disable
	hard drive password.
Password on boot	Defines whether a password is required	Disabled
	or not while the events defined in this	Enabled
	group happened. The following sub-
	options are all requires the Supervisor
	password for changes and should be
	grayed out if the user password was used
	to enter setup.
	Allows the user to specify whether or not
	a password is required to boot.

Set Supervisor/User Password

If password on boot is required, the password must be set otherwise it cannot be enabled. The formats of the password are as follows:

Length	No more than 8 characters
Characters	0-9,A-Z (not case sensitive)

While these fields are highlighted and press “Enter”, a window similar to the following is shown:

Set SupervisorPassword
Enter New Password	[	]
Confirm New Password	[	]

If there is an old password then setup will prompt with the following window instead and a current password will be required to be entered at first:

Set Supervisor Password
Enter current password	[	]
Enter New Password	[	]
Confirm New Password	[	]

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