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From: koerber.sin@sni.de (Mathias Koerber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Everex BIOS Password
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Date: 14 Jun 91 03:27:29 GMT
References: <91163.205448TEMNGT23@ysub.ysu.edu> <1991Jun13.105945@neiman.east.sun.COM>
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In article <1991Jun13.105945@neiman.east.sun.COM> marcus@neiman.east.Sun.COM writes:
|In article <91163.205448TEMNGT23@ysub.ysu.edu>, TEMNGT23@ysub.ysu.edu (Lou Anschuetz) writes:
||> Our university has been buying exclusively Everex PCs for about the
||> last three years.  Our lastest shipment for student PC labs came with
||> quite a surprise.  The new Setup routine lets you set a password on
||> the hardware.  The only way to remove this password is to take the
||> battery out of the machine and wait until the setup information is
||> lost.  As you can imagine, putting these machines in an unsupervised
															^^^^^^^^^^^^
||> student lab will soon lead to each and every one having a password
||> on it.  Argh!
|
|Seems to me, all you have to do is put your own password in first.
|
|Am I missing something?

Yes, the word *unsupervised* in the original post. What stops students from
pulling the batteries and putting their own password...