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Latitude 5495 Owner's Manual

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Security screen options

Option
Description
Admin Password
Allows you to set, change, or delete the administrator (admin) password.
  • NOTE: You must set the admin password before you set the system or hard drive password. Deleting the admin password automatically deletes the system password and the hard drive password.
  • NOTE: Successful password changes take effect immediately.

Default setting: Not set

System Password
Allows you to set, change or delete the system password.
  • NOTE: Successful password changes take effect immediately.

Default setting: Not set

SATA
Allows you to set, change, or delete the SATA password.
  • NOTE: Successful password changes take effect immediately.

Default setting: Not set

Strong Password
Allows you to enforce the option to always set strong passwords.

Default Setting: Enable Strong Password is not selected.

  • NOTE: If Strong Password is enabled, Admin and System passwords must contain at least one uppercase character, one lowercase character and be at least 8 characters long.
Password Configuration
Allows you to determine the minimum and maximum length of Administrator and System passwords.
Password Bypass
Allows you to enable or disable the permission to bypass the System and the Internal HDD password, when they are set. The options are:
  • Disabled
  • Reboot bypass

Default setting: Disabled

Password Changes
Allows you to enable the disable permission to the System and Hard Drive passwords when the admin password is set.

Default setting: Enable Non-Admin Password Changes is selected.

Non-Admin Setup Changes
Allows you to determine whether changes to the setup options are allowed when an Administrator Password is set. If disabled the setup options are locked by the admin password. The option “Allow Wireless Switch changes" is disabled by default
UEFI Capsule Firmware Updates
Allows yout to control whether this system allows BIOS updates via UEFI capsule update packages.
  • Enable UEFI Capsule Firmware Updates (enabled by default)
Computrace
Allows you to activate or disable the optional Computrace software The options are:
  • Deactivate computrance
  • Disable computrance
  • Activate computrance
  • NOTE: The Activate and Disable options will permanently activate or disable the feature and no further changes will be allowed
Enable Admin Setup Lockout
Allows you to prevent users from entering Setup when an Administrator password is set.

Default Setting: Disabled

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