Power-On Password; Administrator Password; Hard Disk User Password; Setting, Changing, And Deleting A Password - Lenovo ThinkCentre 7673 Hardware Maintenance Manual

• Not be your name or your user name
• Not be a common word or a common name
• Be significantly different from your previous password

Power-On Password

When a Power-On 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 Power-On Password and the Administrator Password are set, you can type either password.
However, to change any configuration settings, you must use your Administrator Password.

Hard Disk User Password

When a Hard Disk User Password is set, it prevents unauthorized users from accessing the data on the
hard disk drive.
For computer models that do not have an internal hard disk drive and use a remote hard disk drive accessed
through the SMC - Storage Array, contact your network or storage administrator.

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 64 (1 to 64) alphabetic and numeric characters. For more
information, see "Password considerations" on page 43.
1. Start the Setup Utility program. See Chapter 6 "Using the Setup Utility program" on page 43.
2. From the Setup Utility program, select Security ® Set Passwords.
3. Read the information displayed on the right side of the screen.

Enabling or disabling a device

This section provides information on how to enable or disable user access to the following devices:
Serial ATA
External SATA Port
Legacy Diskette A (some
models)
To enable or disable a device, do the following:
1. Start the Setup Utility program. See "Starting the Setup Utility program" on page 43.
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When this feature is set to Disabled, all devices connected to the SATA connectors
(such as hard disk drives or the optical drive) are disabled and will not be displayed in
the system configuration.
When this feature is set to Disabled, the device connected to the External SATA
connector cannot be accessed.
When this feature is set to Disabled, the diskette drive cannot be accessed.