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Table 6. Security menu items
Menu item
Submenu item Selection Comments
Hardware Password
Manager
• Disabled
• Enabled
Managing your power-on
password, supervisor
password, and your hard
disk passwords by the
management server.
Supervisor Password
• Disabled
• Enabled
See “Supervisor password”
on page 48
.
Lock UEFI BIOS Settings
• Disabled
• Enabled
Enable or disable the
function that protects items
in ThinkPad Setup program
from being changed by a
user who does not have
the supervisor password.
By default, this is set to
Disabled. If you set the
supervisor password and
enable this function, no one
but you can change any
items in ThinkPad Setup.
Password at unattended
boot
• Disabled
• Enabled
If you select and enable
Password at unattended
boot, a password prompt
is displayed when the
computer is turned on,
from either a power-off
state or hibernation state.
If you select Disabled,
no password prompt is
displayed; the computer
goes ahead and loads
the operating system.
To prevent unauthorized
access, set the user
authentication on the
operating system.
Password at restart • Disabled
• Enabled
If you select and enable
Password at restart,
a password prompt is
displayed when you restart
the computer. If you select
Disabled, no password
prompt is displayed; the
computer goes ahead and
loads the operating system.
To prevent unauthorized
access, set the user
authentication on the
operating system.
Set Minimum Length
• Disabled
• x characters (4≤x≤12)
Specify a minimum length
for power-on passwords
and hard disk passwords.
If you set the supervisor
password and specify
a minimum length for
Password
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