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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2004
Filed:
May. 16, 2000
David Carroll Challener, Raleigh, NC (US);
Richard Alan Dayan, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Palmer Eugene Newman, Apex, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for providing security to a computer on a computer network is disclosed. When a network-supplied privileged-access password (PAP) is encountered during a system boot-up operation of the computer, the network-supplied PAP is compared with a system-installed PAP. The network-supplied PAP is stored in a first location of a non-volatile memory of the computer, and the system-installed PAP is stored in a second location of the non-volatile memory of the computer. The system-installed PAP is previously entered to the computer via a keyboard of the computer. If the network-supplied PAP does not match the system-installed PAP, a tamper evident mechanism within the computer is set. Otherwise, if the network-supplied PAP matches the system-installed PAP, the boot-up operation continues to be performed. After the boot-up operation has been completed, configuration of the computer is allowed to be performed remotely over the computer network.