Security Measures - Panasonic Toughbook 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.
Starting up when the password is set
(When [Password on boot] of the [Security] menu is set to [Enable].)
Upon entering your password and pressing
*
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 35).
Reference
below
page 15
"Names and Functions of Parts"
.
Will Start
Will Not Start*
(Power off)
page 32).
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