Return Types; Password Authentication - Lenovo ThinkCentre M82 Deployment Manual

Return types

Table 2. Return Types
Return Type
Success
Not
Supported
Invalid
Parameter
Access
Denied
System Busy

Password Authentication

Table 3. Password parameters format, password authentication
Parameter Description
Parameter 1 Current password
Parameter 2 Password encoding
Parameter 3 Keyboard languages
(valid only if encoding is "ascii")
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Notes:
1. See Appendix A, "Sample Visual Basic scripts for configuring
BIOS settings," on page 19 for Visual Basic sample scripts.
2. See Table 4 on page 6 for a listing of acceptable setting names.
You will receive one of the following return types after making
changes to BIOS settings:
Description
Operation completed successfully.
The feature is not supported on this system.
The item or value provided is not valid.
The change could not be made due to an authentication
problem. If a supervisor password exists, the correct supervisor
password must be provided.
BIOS changes have already been made that need to be
committed. Reboot the system and try again
If an Administrator password is already set, you must specify that
administrator password before you can change any BIOS settings.
The format for password parameters is "abc,ascii,us" with
descriptions in Table 3.
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Possible selections
·"abc" - raw ascii character
·"1e302e" – scancode
·"ascii"
·"scancode"
·"us" - English US, English,
French-Canadian, Italian, Japanese,
Korean, Norwegian, Polish,
Portuguese,
Spanish-European, Spanish-Latin
American, Swiss, Turkish
·"fr" - French-European, Belgian
·"gr" - German, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian
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