User Password; Administrator Password; Setting, Changing, And Deleting A Password; Enabling Or Disabling A Device - Lenovo ThinkCentre A57e Hardware Maintenance Manual

v Have at least eight characters in length
v Contain at least one alphabetic character and one numeric character
v Setup Utility program and hard disk drive passwords are not case sensitive
v Not be your name or your user name
v Not be a common word or a common name
v Be significantly different from your previous password

User Password

When a User Password is set, the computer cannot be used until a valid password
is typed from the keyboard.

Administrator Password

When an Administrator Password is set, it deters unauthorized persons from
changing configuration settings. If you are responsible for maintaining the settings
of several computers, you might want to set an Administrator Password.
After you set an Administrator Password, a password prompt is displayed each
time you try to access the Setup Utility program.
If both the user and administrator passwords are set, you can type either
password. However, to change any configuration settings, you must use your
administrator password.

Setting, changing, and deleting a password

To set, change, or delete a password, do the following:
Note: A password can be any combination of up to twelve alphabetic and numeric
1. Start the Setup Utility program (see Chapter 6, "Using the Setup Utility," on
2. From the Setup Utility program menu, select Security.
3. Based on your need, select Set User Passwords or Set Administrator
4. Read the information displayed on the right side of the screen.

Enabling or disabling a device

You can enable or disable user access to a device.
SATA 1
OnBoard Floppy
Controller
To set the SATA drive configuration, do the following:
1. Start the Setup Utility program (see "Starting the Setup Utility program" on
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characters (a-z and 0-9). For more information, see "Password
considerations" on page 49.
page 49).
Passwords.
When this feature is set to Disable, all devices connected to the
SATA controller (such as hard disk drives or the CD-ROM drive)
are disabled and will not be displayed in the system
configuration.
When this feature is set to Disable, the diskette drive cannot be
accessed.
page 49).