Lenovo IdeaCentre K220 - Manual (Page 33)

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Setting, changing, and deleting a Supervisor password
To set, change, or delete a password, do the following:
Note: A password can be any combination of up to ten characters (A- Z, a-z,
and 0-9). For more information, see “Password considerations” on
page 17.
1. Start the Setup Utility program (see “Starting the Setup Utility program”
on page 16).
2. From the Setup Utility program menu, select Security .
3. Select Change Supervisor Password and press Enter.
4. The password dialog box will be displayed. Type the new password,
and press Enter.
5. when prompted to confirm the password, type the password again. If
you type the password correctly, the password will be installed.
To delete a previously set supervisor password, do the following :
Note: When prompted for a password, you must type your supervisor
password.
1. From the Setup Utility program menu, select Change Supervisor
Password and press Enter.
2. when you type the supervisor password. a message will display that
Enter New Password. Press Enter and a message will display that
indicates the password has been disabled. After that, the user password
will be disabled too if a user password has been installed.
3. Press any key to contine.
User Password
When a User Password is set, you cannot start the Setup Utility program
until a valid password is typed from the keyboard.
You should set a user password after you set the supervisor password. If
you didn’t setup the supervisor password but only set the user password,
you cannot change any configuration settings.
Setting, changing, and deleting a user password
To set, change, or delete a user password, do the following:
Note: A password can be any combination of up to ten characters(A-Z, a-z,
and 0-9).
1. Start the Setup Utility program (See ”Starting the Setup Utility program”.)
2. From the Setup Utility program menu, selet Change User Password and