Administrator Password; Using The Scsiselect Utility Program - IBM 6000R - Netfinity - 8682 Hardware Maintenance Manual

Administrator password

Select this choice to set an administrator password. The
administrator password provides access to all choices on
the Configuration/Setup Utility main menu. You can set,
change, or delete both the administrator and power-on pass-
words, and allow a power-on password to be changed by the
user.
Attention: If an administrator password is set and then for-
gotten, it cannot be overridden or removed. You must
replace the system board.
The following table provides a summary of the password
features.
Table 8. Power-on and administrator password features
Type of
password
Power-on
password
Administrator
password
Administrator
and power-on
password

Using the SCSISelect utility program

SCSISelect is a built-in, menu-driven configuration utility
program that you can use to:
• View the default SCSI IDs
• Locate and correct configuration conflicts
• Perform a low-level format on a SCSI hard disk
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• Enter the password to complete the
system startup.
• All choices are available on the
Configuration/Setup Utility main
menu.
• No password is required to start the
system.
• Enter the password to access the
Configuration/Setup Utility program.
• All choices are available on the
Configuration/Setup Utility main
menu.
• You can enter either password to
complete the system startup.
• The administrator password
provides access to all choices on the
Configuration/Setup Utility main
menu. You can set, change, or
delete both the administrator and
power-on passwords, and allow a
power-on password to be changed
by the user.
• The power-on password provides
access to a limited set of choices on
the Configuration/Setup Utility main
menu. This limited access might
include changing or deleting the
power-on password.
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