NEC Corporation FC-N22A User Manual

3.2 LOGIN PASSWORD

The login password is intended to limit users of OS.
If a login password is set, the password must be entered to login to the OS.

<Setting Procedure>

Click [Start]

 [Control Panel].

Click [User Accounts] to open the dialog box.

Click [Change an account] and click the name of the user for which a login
password is to be created.

Click [Create a password] to open the password setting screen.

Enter a password in the [Type a new password:] and [Type the new password
again to confirm:] boxes and click [Create password].

3.3 SECURITY CHIP

Setting the security chip allows electronic mails and files to be encrypted and prohibited from
being opened without an authentication password.
In addition, N22A is equipped with a security chip called TPM (Trusted Platform Module) in its
major part to store encryption keys in the security chip. Thus, if only the HDD is withdrawn, the
data in the HDD will not be read.

 A login password can be created only by a user having any of accounts in the local

computer including guest and administrator accounts and those created for the computer.

 To create a tip for a password, anyone using computers can see the tips on the [Welcome]

screen.

 A user having the administrator account of a computer can create or change passwords for

all users of the computer.
A user having a limited account can only create or change his or her own password or
create a tip of the password.

 If a user having the administrator account of a computer changes a password of a user,

then the user loses all the passwords stored for EFS encrypted files, personal certificate,
and web site or network resources.

 To use the security chip, set supervisor and user passwords to restrict accessing to the

BIOS SETUP Utility.

 See “Infineon Security Platform” in “Chapter 5 . Installing OS and Applications ” for details.