How to Recover a User that is Locked at the PBA Screen

Summary: How to recover a user that is locked at the PBA screen when using Dell Encryption Enterprise Self-Encrypting Drive Manager (formerly Dell Data Protection | Self-Encrypting Drive Manager) or Dell Full Disk Encryption. ...

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Symptoms

Affected Products:

  • Dell Encryption Enterprise Self-Encrypting Drive Management
  • Dell Data Protection | Self-Encrypting Drive Management
  • Dell Full Disk Encryption

After multiple failed authentication attempts at the username, password and challenge response screen, the following error message will be displayed.

Error message after multiple failed authentication attempts
Figure 1: (English Only) Error message after multiple failed authentication attempts

Cause

Not Applicable

Resolution

There are two methods to recover from this scenario:


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Affected Products

Dell Encryption
Article Properties
Article Number: 000130822
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 03 Aug 2023
Version:  10
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