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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2016
Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., New Tech Park, SG;
Joseph Robert Parker, Hillsborough, NC (US);
Mikio Hagiwara, Yamato, JP;
James Patrick Hoff, Raleigh, NC (US);
Eitaroh Kasamatsu, Kawasaki, JP;
Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD., New Tech Park, SG;
Abstract
For supervisor password access based on a key press of a hotkey, systems, apparatus, methods, and program products are disclosed. The apparatus may include a processor that monitors for a key press of a hotkey during a up process, that detects a supervisor password access attempt, that allows access to the supervisor password in response to hotkey being pressed during the boot up process, and that denies access to the supervisor password in response to hotkey not being pressed during the boot up process.