Assigning A User Password; Using Your User Password To Secure Your System; Deleting Or Changing An Existing User Password; Disabling A Forgotten Password - Dell PowerEdge 4200 Series User Manual
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NOTE: The system allows you three attempts to enter a
password. After three failed attempts, the keyboard locks
up and you must reboot the system before you can try
entering a password again.
Assigning a User Password
NOTE: You cannot assign a user password until a super-
visor password has been set.
When in the Set User Password category, you can press
user password. You can use up to seven alphanumeric
characters in a password, and the password is not case-
sensitive (it can be either uppercase or lowercase
characters).
When a user password is set, the status shown in the User
Password Is category is Enabled.
With no user password assigned and with no jumper plug
installed on the password jumper (PASSWD) on the sys-
tem board, the status shown in the User Password
category is Disabled.
Keep the following tips in mind when setting your
password:
•
You can use up to seven alphanumeric characters in
your password (passwords are not case-sensitive).
•
As you press each character key (or the
for a blank space), a placeholder appears in the field.
•
To erase a character when entering your password,
press the key or the left-arrow key.
NOTES: The password assignment operation recognizes
keys by their location on the keyboard, without distin-
guishing between lowercase and uppercase characters.
For example, if you have an M in your password, the system
recognizes either M or m as correct.
Certain key combinations are not valid. If you enter one
of these combinations, a beep sounds.
To exit the field without assigning a user password, press
the up-arrow or down-arrow key to move the highlight to
another field, or press the key at any time before setting
a new password.
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Using Your User Password to Secure
Your System
Each time you turn on your system, reboot the system, or
press the reset button, the following prompt appears on
the screen:
Enter password:
After you enter the correct user password and press
board to operate your system as usual.
If a wrong or incomplete password is entered, the follow-
ing message appears on the screen:
Warning, Invalid password.
[Continued]
Enter the password again. If an incorrect or incomplete
user password is entered again, the same message
appears on the screen.
The third time an incorrect or incomplete password is
entered, the keyboard locks up and displays the following
message:
System disabled
You must reboot the system before you can attempt to
enter a password again
.
Deleting or Changing an Existing User
Password
To disable the user password, press to display
the Set Password dialog box, and then press two
more times.
When the User Password Is category displays Disabled, you
can assign a user password or operate the system with no
password assigned.
To change an existing user password, first enter the Sys-
tem Setup program and disable the current password.
Then, with the User Password Is category set to Disabled,
assign a new user password as described in "Assigning a
User Password" found earlier in this section.
Disabling a Forgotten Password
If you forget your user or supervisor password, you can-
not operate your system or change settings in the System
Setup program, respectively, until a trained service tech-
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