Deleting Or Changing An Existing Supervisor Password; Using The User Password Feature - Dell PowerEdge 350 User Manual

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NOTE: The supervisor password only applies to the System Setup program. A user

password should be installed to completely secure your system. See "Assigning a

User Password" found later in this chapter.

Deleting or Changing an Existing Supervisor Password

To delete or change an existing supervisor password, perform the following steps:

Enter the System Setup program by pressing <F2>.

Select the Security screen field to verify that the Supervisor Password Is option

is set to Installed.

Select the Set Supervisor Password option and press <Enter>.

The system prompts you to Enter Current Password.

Type your current supervisor password and press <Enter>

The system prompts you to Enter Supervisor Password.

NOTE: If you want to delete the password and not enter a new password, press

<Enter> without typing in a new password, leaving the Enter Supervisor Pass-

word field blank.

To assign a new password, follow the procedure from step 4 on in "Assigning a

Supervisor Password (System Setup Only)" found earlier in this chapter.

Your Dell system is shipped to you without the user password feature installed. If sys-

tem security is a concern, you should operate your system with user password

protection.

You can assign a user password whenever you use the System Setup program. After

a user password is assigned, only those who know the password have access to the

System Setup program.

To change an existing user password, you must know the user password (see the sec-

tion "Deleting or Changing an Existing User Password" found later in this chapter). If

you assign and later forget a user password, you need to be able to remove the system

cover to change a jumper setting that disables the user password feature. See "Delet-

ing a Forgotten Password" found later in this chapter. Note that this procedure erases

the supervisor password at the same time.

NOTICE: If you leave your system running and unattended without having

a user password assigned, or if you leave your system unlocked so that

someone can disable the password by changing a jumper setting, anyone

can access the data stored on your hard-disk drive.

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