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Table 23. System Security details
Option
Secure Boot Policy Summary
Secure Boot Custom Policy
Settings
Creating a system and setup password
Prerequisites
Ensure that the password jumper is enabled. The password jumper enables or disables the system password and setup password
features. For more information, see the System board jumper settings section.
NOTE:
If the password jumper setting is disabled, the existing system password and setup password are deleted and you
need not provide the system password to boot the system.
Steps
1. To enter System Setup, press F2 immediately after turning on or rebooting your system.
2. On the System Setup Main Menu screen, click System BIOS > System Security.
3. On the System Security screen, verify that Password Status is set to Unlocked.
4. In the System Password field, type your system password, and press Enter or Tab.
Use the following guidelines to assign the system password:
● A password can have up to 32 characters.
A message prompts you to reenter the system password.
5. Reenter the system password, and click OK.
6. In the Setup Password field, type your setup password and press Enter or Tab.
A message prompts you to reenter the setup password.
7. Reenter the setup password, and click OK.
8. Press Esc to return to the System BIOS screen. Press Esc again.
A message prompts you to save the changes.
NOTE:
Password protection does not take effect until the system reboots.
Using your system password to secure your system
About this task
If you have assigned a setup password, the system accepts your setup password as an alternate system password.
Steps
1. Turn on or reboot your system.
Description
Table 24. Secure Boot Mode (continued)
Options
Descriptions
Audit Mode In Audit mode, PK is not present. The BIOS does not authenticate
programmatic updates to the policy objects, and transitions between
modes. The BIOS performs a signature verification on pre-boot images
and logs the results in the image Execution Information Table, but
executes the images whether they pass or fail verification.
Audit Mode is useful for programmatic determination of a working set
of policy objects.
Specifies the list of certificates and hashes that secure boot uses to authenticate
images.
Configures the Secure Boot Custom Policy. To enable this option, set the Secure Boot
Policy to Custom option.
Pre-operating system management applications
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