Invoking The Password Security Feature; Steps To Making The System Secure - Digital Equipment 300 Series AXP Reference Manual

Invoking the Password Security Feature

Making your DEC 3000 Model 300 Series AXP system secure
Steps to
Making the requires software and hardware tasks. Table 5–2 describes the
System Secure steps required to secure your system.
Table 5–2 Steps to Making the System Secure
Step
1
2
3
Antistatic Do not perform any tasks inside the system unit without
Precautions attaching the antistatic wrist strap to your wrist and the system.
Refer to the section entitled CAUTION: Static Discharge in
Chapter 2.
Enter a New Your system arrives from the factory without a password. The
Password password you enter must be a character string of exactly 16
hexadecimal characters (0 through 9 and A through F). To enter
a password on your system, enter the commands shown in
Table 5–3 starting at the console prompt (>>>).
Table 5–3 Entering a Password
Enter this command:
>>> set password
PSWD1>
PSWD2>
As you enter the password, what you type does not display, or
echo, on the screen. If the two passwords you entered match,
your password is preserved in nonvolatile memory, which means
that the system saves your password value even when the
system unit is turned off.
Invoking the Password Security Feature
Description
Enter a password
Enable security
Move the secure system jumper
new_password
Return
new_password
Return
System responds...
PSWD1>
PSWD2>
>>>
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