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What is Open Firmware Password Protection?

April 26, 2017firmware password

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What is Open Firmware Password Protection?

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We have a whole discussion on Open Firmware Password protection here. In short it would be compared to the PC’s BIOS password where it asks you for password on startup or while trying to configure the Open Firmware settings. By enabling this protection you are building your computers security a little stronger than before. Apple has decided to keep the password options undocumented at the moment, you can go into the open firmware settings by hand and enable or disable the functionality. Yet users seem to not like to go into command line and are used to the beutiful Mac OS graphical user interface. Mac OS 9 Startup Security 1.0 Screenshot Mac OS X Startup Security Configuration Open Firmware Password Protection Security Issues The Macintosh programming group released the program Disengage that will allow any user who has desktop access to obtain the open firmware password. This issue is yet to be discussed by Apple. Remember the open firmware password protection is undocumented by Apple