? Using no passwords on an X40

[JimMorris]

I am about to become the owner of an X40-(2382HCU). I am wondering if it will be possible to use without assigning ANY of the three passwords. Also, I am wondering if I might be leaving myself open to problems later on if it should be possible to operate without passwords. Any feedback will be appreciated.

Jim

[erik]

even if your X40 stays home all day and is behind a firewall, you need to assign a password to your administrator account to prevent possible intrusion.   it's a good idea to set a strong password (uppercase + lowercase + special chars) on the admin account and set up a second user for your personal account.   rather than setting up this user with no password, use a utility like microsoft's TweakUI to automatically log you into windows.   leaving windows with no passwords whatsoever is a very bad idea.

for the hardware, you should assign a BIOS password at a minimum.   this prevents anyone else from setting it and locking you out of your system.

but, to answer your original question... yes, it is possible to use the system without assigning any passwords.

good luck and enjoy the X40!

-erik

[kalo93406]

From someone on who recently had his T40 stolen with out any password protecting, DONT do it... I also had much personal Info on the computer and even credit card numbers and website passwords etc…. silly I know… I know…

I have my new X40 and am using all the security options.. the IBM stuff really works pretty well.

I have the IBM security software and encryption option. I'm even going to use the IBM password option i think. I’ve tried it a bit and think I will work as well as any other option, maybe even better. It saves each web login name and password. Since you have the Security software installed It will ask you for the master password prior to using the IBM password manager once each startup. As i have it now for each web site i have to enter a password on I just press f2 and it automatically enters and logs me on... this i really even more convenient that the Mozilla password manager since the IBM option also enters "return" after the passwords are entered automatically. Probably more secure too, since I think the passwords you use in IBM security software would be harder to crack (at least I hope)

I also have my X40 set up to have a boot up, bios and hard drive password. My boot up password and hard drive password are the same.. this seems to be a good idea as i only have to enter the boot-up password once without having to enter the hard drive password. I guess since they are the same it automatically passes through the hard drive password. Since I have my X40 set with a boot password I don't have my windows password working on startup.

I've disabled automatic standby on my computer and have it set to hibernate instead. I think this is the best plan as I don't want to have my windows password enabled for startup, but want some sort of password on returning from a standby/hibernate mode. If I was using standby rather than hibernate I would need to have my windows password enabled. But of course I don't want that as then I would have to enter two passwords on startup of the computer.

You definitely want a strong supervisor password for your BIOS I think.

Anyway.. hope this make some sense..

If anyone find a flaw with my thoughts and way of operating here.. PLEASE let me know..

Thanks R..

[egibbs]

Every so often some poor soull comes here looking for a way to unlock a machine that a co-worker or friend set a password on a a "joke." If you don't set your passwords, someone else may do it for you.

Ed Gibbs