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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
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Subject: Re: Everex BIOS Password
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.210321.15472@qualcomm.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 21:03:21 GMT
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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?

Well, then you need to give the students the password so they can use the
computers.  And once you have the password, you can also change the password!

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