Acer 6460 Laptop User Manual


 
Chapter 2 56
Security
The system supports three levels of password protection. The password support consists of a Supervisor
Password, User Password, and Hard Disk Password. All the passwords are stored in a non-volatile storage device
(EEPROM).
All the passwords obeys the following rules:
Password Policy
All the passwords can be set or cleared in BIOS Setup Security screen.
The password entry consists of eight alphanumeric characters. At least one character must be
assigned.
The valid keys are listed in the table below:
Symbol Character Symbol Name
A-Z letters A to Z (not case sensitive)
0-9 numerical characters
- dash
= equal sign
[ left bracket
] right bracket
. period
, comma
; semi-colon