Security Measures - Panasonic TOUGHBOOK CF-37 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 want to prevent theft or damage to data by using a disk
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.
CAUTION
It is not necessary to set the User Password.
It is necessary to set [Password on boot] in the Setup Utility to [Enable].
Starting up when the password is set
Upon entering your Supervisor
Password or User Password
and pressing Enter .
Over three incorrect attempts,
or no password is entered for about one minute,
*
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.
When [User Password Protection] has been set to [Protected], you can not reg-
ister the User Password.
When [User Password Protection] has been set to [No Protection], you can reg-
ister the User Password (
Function to use
Supervisor Password
User Password
Prevent operation by
using a disk
If the correct password is input,
If you are starting from the suspend mode, 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 suspend mode.
page 48).
Reference
below
page 21
Will Start
Will Not Start*
(Power off)
page 48).
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