Security Menu
You can make the following selections on the Security Menu. Enabling the Supervisor Password field requires a password for entering Setup. The passwords are not case sensitive.
Table 26. Security Menu
Feature | Choices | Description |
User Password is | Clear | Status only; user cannot modify. Once set, this can be |
| Set | disabled by setting it to a null string or by clearing password |
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| jumper on baseboard (see “Password Clear Jumper,” |
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| page 110). |
Administrator Password is | Clear | Status only; user cannot modify. Once set, this can be |
| Set | disabled by setting it to a null string or by clearing |
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| password jumper on baseboard (see “Password Clear |
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| Jumper” page 110). |
Set User Password | Press Enter | When the <Enter> key is pressed, the user is prompted for a |
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| password; press ESC key to abort. Once set, this can be |
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| disabled by setting it to a null string or by clearing password |
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| jumper on baseboard (see “Password Clear Jumper” |
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| page 110). |
Set Administrative Password | Press Enter | When the <Enter> key is pressed, the user is prompted for a |
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| password; press ESC key to abort. Once set, this can be |
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| disabled by setting it to a null string or by clearing password |
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| jumper on baseboard (see “Password Clear Jumper” |
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| page 110). |
Password on Boot | Disabled | If enabled and the user password is set, the system |
| Enabled | prompts the user for a password before the system boots. |
Fixed Disk Boot Sector | Normal | |
| Write Protect | viruses. |
Secure Mode Timer | Disabled | Period of keyboard or PS/2 mouse inactivity specified for |
| 1, 2, 5, 10, | secure mode to activate. A password is required for |
| or 20 min | secure mode to function. Cannot be enabled unless at |
| 1 or 2 hr | least one password is enabled. |
Secure Mode Hot Key | [ ] | Key assigned to invoke the secure mode feature. Cannot |
[A, B, ..., Z] | be enabled unless at least one password is enabled. Can | |
| be disabled by entering a new key followed by a | |
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| backspace or by entering <Delete>. |
Secure Mode Boot | Disabled | System boots in secure mode. The user must enter a |
| Enabled | password to unlock the system. Cannot be enabled unless |
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| at least one password is enabled. |
Video Blanking | Disabled | Blank video when secure mode is activated. The user |
| Enabled | must enter a password to unlock the system. Cannot be |
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| enabled unless at least one password is enabled. |
Floppy Write Protect | Disabled | When secure mode is activated, the diskette drive is write |
| Enabled | protected. The user must enter a password to |
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| diskette writes. Cannot be enabled unless at least one |
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| password is enabled. |
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