Security Measures - Panasonic CF-M34 series Reference Manual

Security Measures

To prevent unauthorized access of your computer, the various security measures are provided below.
Situation
You do not want your computer to be used without permission
You do not want the data on the hard disk to be read, or data to
be written to the hard disk, in cases including theft.
You want to prevent theft of your computer
When you do not want your computer to be used without permission
You can set your "Supervisor Password" and "User Password" (The User Password can
only be set when the Supervisor Password has been set).
Without the password, access to your computer is impossible.
When the Hard Disk Lock is set to [Enable], it is impossible to read/write data from/to
the hard disk when the hard disk is installed in a different computer, since a password is
also set for the hard disk. When the hard disk is returned to the original computer, you
can read and write data as before. In this case, however, make the settings in the Setup
Utility exactly the same as they were before the hard disk was removed.
(The Hard Disk Lock can only be set when the Supervisor Password has been set.)
It is possible to set the Hard Disk Lock without setting the User Password, but we rec-
ommend that you set the User Password for security reasons. (Note that this Hard Disk
Lock does not guarantee complete protection of data.)
Starting up when the password is set
Upon entering your Supervisor Password or User Password and pressing Enter .
*
If entering the Setup Utility with Supervisor Password
You can register all items of the Setup Utility (
If entering the Setup Utility with User Password
You can not register [Advanced] menu and some items in [Security] menu.
When [User Password Protection] has been set to [Protected], you can not regis-
ter the User Password.
When [User Password Protection] has been set to [No Protection], you can regis-
ter the User Password (
NOTE
When only the supervisor password has been set, the password is not neces-
sary when the computer is started up, but the password becomes necessary
when the Setup Utility is started up. This alternative makes it possible to pre-
vent the contents of the Setup Utility from being changed.
Function to use
Supervisor Password
User Password
Hard Disk Lock
User Security lock
If the correct password is input,
Over three incorrect attempts,
or no password is entered for about one minute,
If after three attempts the correct password is not
input, or if no password is entered for about a minute,
the computer returns to the condition just before the
attempt was made to start up the computer.
page 37).
Reference
below
page 18
"Names and Functions of Parts"
Will Start
Will Not Start*
(Power off)
page 34).
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