
AppendixA.Securityandconvenience
Computersecurityisoftenconsideredmuchmoreimportantmoreconvenience.Thefollowingtable
illustrateshowHardwarePasswordManagerpolicysettingscanbeconguredtooptimizesecurityand
convenience.
Note:Defaultvaluesarehighlightedinitalics.
Table1.HardwarePasswordManagerpolicysettings
PolicysettingDescriptionMostsecureMostconvenient
Client-BIOSPolicy
Showlastlogonaccount
forHardwareAccount
DetermineswhetherBIOSshouldcache
theHardwareAccountusernamethat
successfullyloggedintothesystemlasttime.
Thepasswordisnotcachedandtheuserwill
havetoenteriteachtime.
NotSelectedSelected
PromptforHardware
Accountonwarmboot
Determineswhethertopromptforthe
HardwareAccounteachtimethesystem
restarts.
Selected
Notselected
Client-Common
HardwarePasswords
SetCommonSVPDetermineswhethertosettheSupervisor
Password(SVP)toacommonhard-coded
value,ortogeneratethepassword
automatically.UsingacommonSVPcan
makeiteasierfortheadministratortomanually
entertheSVPifnecessary(forexample,to
entertheBIOSsetupandchangesettings).
NotSelected
(auto-generated
password)
Selected
(hard-code
password)
SetCommonPOP
DetermineswhethertosetthePower-on
Password(POP)toacommonhard-coded
valueortogeneratethePOPautomatically.
NotSelected
(auto-generated
password)
Selected
(hard-code
password)
SetCommonMHDP
DetermineswhethertosettheMasterHard
DrivePassword(MHDP)toacommon
hard-codedvalueortogeneratethepassword
automatically.UsingacommonMHDPcan
makeiteasierfortheadministratortomanually
entertheMHDPifnecessary(forexample,to
entertheBIOSsetupandcleartheUHDPand
MHDP).
NotSelected
(auto-generated
password)
Selected
(hard-code
password)
SetCommonUHDP
DetermineswhethertosettheUserHardDrive
Password(UHDP)toacommonhard-coded
valueortogeneratetheUHDPautomatically.
NotSelected
(auto-generated
password)
Selected
(hard-code
password)
Client-Emergency
Account
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