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Latitude 3189 Owner's Manual

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Security screen options

Option
Description
Admin Password
Allows you to set, change, or delete the administrator (admin) password.
  • NOTE: You must set the admin password before you set the system or hard drive password. Deleting the admin password automatically deletes the system password and the hard drive password.
  • NOTE: Successful password changes take effect immediately.

Default setting: Not set

System Password
Allows you to set, change, or delete the system password.
  • NOTE: Successful password changes take effect immediately.

Default setting: Not set

Internal HDD-0 Password
Allows you to set, change, or delete the administrator password.
  • NOTE: Successful password changes take effect immediately.

Default setting: Not set

Strong Password
Allows you to enforce the option to always set strong passwords.

Default Setting: Enable Strong Password is not selected.

  • NOTE: If Strong Password is enabled, the Admin and System passwords must contain at least one uppercase character, one lowercase character and be at least eight characters long.
Password Configuration
Allows you to specify the minimum and max password lengths of the Administrator and System passwords.
  • min-4—by default, if you want to change you can increase the number.
  • max-32—you can decrease the number.
Password Bypass
Allows you to enable or disable the permission to bypass the System and the Internal HDD password, when they are set. The options are:
  • Disabled —enabled by default
  • Reboot bypass
Password Change
Allows you to enable the disable permission to the System and Hard Drive passwords when the admin password is set.

Default setting: Allow Non-Admin Password Changes is selected.

Non-Admin Setup Changes
Allows you to determine whether changes to the setup options are allowed when an Administrator Password is set. If disabled, the setup options are locked by the admin password.

Option "allow wireless switch changes" is not selected by default.

UEFI Capsule Firmware Updates
Allows you to enable or disable. This option controls whether this system allows BIOS updated via UEFI capsule update packages. The options are:
  • Enable UEFI Capsule Firmware—enabled by default
TPM 2.0 Security
Allows you to enable the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) during POST. The options are:
  • TPM On—enabled by default
  • Clear
  • PPI Bypass for Enable Commands—enabled by default
  • PPI Bypass for Disabled Commands
  • Attestation enable—enabled by default
  • Key storage enable—enabled by default
  • SHA-256—enabled by default
  • Disabled
  • Enabled—enabled by default
  • NOTE: To upgrade or downgrade TPM 2.0, download the TPM wrapper tool—software.
Computrace
Allows you to activate or disable the optional Computrace software The options are:
  • Deactivate
  • Disable
  • Activate—enabled by default
  • NOTE: The Activate and Disable options will permanently activate or disable the feature and no further changes will be allowed.
CPU XD Support
Allows you to enable the Execute Disable mode of the processor.

Enable CPU XD Support—enabled by default

Admin Setup Lockout
Allows you to prevent users from entering Setup when an Administrator password is set.

Default Setting: This option is enabled

Master password lockout
This option is not enabled by default

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