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Security – Acer 5620 User Manual

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Chapter 2

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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).

Password Policy: All the passwords will obey the following rules:

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

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