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<p>Created page with &quot;Before using any Apple Mac, SIAT IT Services needs to perform three settings changes to avoid potentially disastrous problems: * &#039;&#039;&#039;Firmware (EFI) Password&#039;&#039;&#039; : If a firmware...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Before using any Apple Mac, SIAT IT Services needs to perform three settings changes to avoid potentially disastrous problems:<br /> <br /> * &#039;&#039;&#039;Firmware (EFI) Password&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> : If a firmware password is set and then lost, it will prevent the machine from being able to boot from a user-specified device or partition, or for the machine to enter into Recovery mode. IT Services will set this to a standardized password to prevent this from happening.<br /> * &#039;&#039;&#039;Filevault Master Password&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> : Setting a master password for Filevault will allow IT Services to decrypt any Filevault volume where the original encrypter has forget the password.<br /> * &#039;&#039;&#039;Guest Account&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> : When the user of a Guest account logs off of the computer, all files created during that session will be deleted. This has caused some researchers to inadvertently lose their work. IT Services will de-activate this account.</div>

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