Supervisor Password; System Management Password; How To Remove The Power-On Password - Lenovo ThinkPad P17 Gen 1 Hardware Maintenance Manual

Attention: Attention: If the user hard disk password has been forgotten, check whether a master hard disk
password has been set. If a master hard disk password has been set, it can be used to access the hard disk
drive. If no master hard disk password is available, neither Lenovo nor Lenovo authorized service technicians
provide any services to reset either the user hard disk password or the master hard disk password, or to
recover data from the hard disk drive. The hard disk drive can be replaced for a scheduled fee.
For how to remove the hard disk password, see "How to remove the hard disk password" on page 31.

Supervisor password

The supervisor password protects the system information stored in the ThinkPad Setup program. It provides
the following security features:
• If only a supervisor password is set, a password prompt is displayed when you try to start the ThinkPad
Setup program. Unauthorized users cannot change most of the system configuration options in the
ThinkPad Setup program without the password.
• The system administrator can use the supervisor password to access a computer even if the user of that
computer has set a power-on password. The supervisor password overrides the power-on password.
• The system administrator can set the same supervisor password on many ThinkPad notebook computers
to make administration easier.
Attention: If the supervisor password has been forgotten and cannot be made available to the service
technician, there is no service procedure to reset the password. The system board must be replaced for a
scheduled fee.

System management password

The system management password can also protect the system information stored in UEFI BIOS like a
supervisor password, but it has lower authority by default. The system management password can be set
through the UEFI BIOS menu or through Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) with the Lenovo
client-management interface.
You can enable the system management password to have the same authority as the supervisor password
to control security related features. To customize the authority of the system management password through
the UEFI BIOS menu:
1. Enter the UEFI BIOS menu.
Note: When you are prompted by the icon
password has been set, or enter the correct system management password if no supervisor password
has been set. Otherwise, you cannot change the configurations in the following steps.
2. Select Security ➙ Password ➙ System Management Password Access Control.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions.
If you have set both the supervisor password and the system management password, the supervisor
password overrides the system management password. If you have set both the system management
password and the power-on password, the system management password overrides the power-on
password.

How to remove the power-on password

To remove a power-on password, do the following:
If no supervisor password has been set, do the following to remove the power-on password:
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, enter the correct supervisor password if a supervisor