Acer 1000 - Manual (Page 68)

58 Chapter 2
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