Using Fingerprint Authentication; Characteristics Of Fingerprint Authentication - Fujitsu LIFEBOOK P8010 Manual

USING FINGERPRINT
AUTHENTICATION*
With fingerprint authentication, you can omit
entering a user name and a password by just
sliding your finger onto the fingerprint sensor at
the time of logging in homepages or logging on
Windows. This chapter describes how to use
fingerprint authentication.
* NOTE:
This is only applicable for LifeBook with
Fingerprint Sensor.
To use fingerprint authentication, the user's
fingerprints must be registered.
Characteristics of fingerprint
authentication
Fingerprint authentication can be
used in the following case.
• Logging on to Windows
When the user account of Windows is
password-protected, only persons who know
that password can log on to Windows using
that account. However, you have to enter the
password each time when you log on to
Windows.
With use of fingerprint authentication, you
can log on to Windows by only authenticating
fingerprints that have previously been
registered, thus omitting entering a
password.
• Recovery from the power-saving status
If the computer is password-protected for the
recovery from power-saving status, you have
to enter a password each time when your
computer is recovered from the power-saving
status.
With use of fingerprint authentication, you
can recover from the power-saving status by
authenticating fingerprints that have
previously been registered, thus omitting
entering a password.
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• Canceling password-protected screen
saver
You can lock your computer if the screen
saver is password-protected. However, you
have to cancel this lock when canceling the
screen saver.
With use of fingerprint authentication, just
authenticating fingerprints that have
previously been registered enables this lock
to be canceled, thus omitting entering a
password.
• Logging into the homepage that requires
an ID (user name) and a password
To log into the homepage of which security
is set up, you may have to enter log-in
information such as an ID (user name) and
a password.
With fingerprint authentication, you can log
into these homepages by just authenticating
fingerprints if log-in information is previously
memorized for specific homepages.
Status for entering log-in information differs
depending on homepages; direct entering
log-in information into homepages, and
indication of screens specific to entering. In
either case, log-in using finger print
authentication can be performed.