4-14 Dell PowerEdge 4100/180 and 4100/200 Systems User’s Guide
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 <ENTER> to display a dialog box in which you can
enter a user password. You can use up to seven alphanu-
meric 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 (PSWD) on the system
board (its default setting), the status shown in the USER
PASSWORD
category is set to 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 <SPACEBAR>
for a blank space), a placeholder appears in the field.
• To erase a character when entering your password,
press the <BACKSPACE> 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 <ESC> key at any time before setting
a new password.
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
<ENTER>, your system boots and you can use the key-
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.
Press <ENTER> to continue
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 <ENTER> to display
the Set Password dialog box, and then press <ENTER> 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 DIS-
ABLED
, assign a new user password as described in
“Assigning a User Password” found earlier in this
section.
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