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NAME

       svpw - enter/delete the supervisor password on a Toshiba laptop.

SYNOPSIS

       svpw [ -uh ]

DESCRIPTION

       svpw  allows  the  entry  and  deletion of the supervisor password on a
       Toshiba laptop that supports them.  It also allows you  change  whether
       the  setup  utilities  can  be  run in the user password mode. For more
       information on password security on your Toshiba laptop please  consult
       the User’s manual.

       For technical reasons this program can only be run from the console.

OPTIONS

              When  run without any options it displays whether the supervisor
              password is registered or not, and allows you to either register
              or delete it.

       -u     Display  the  current  user  password  mode  and  allow it to be
              changed.

       -h     Print a short synopsis of the command line arguments.

BUGS

       This program has no known bugs (yet)!

AUTHOR

       This program was written by Jonathan Buzzard  (jonathan@buzzard.org.uk)
       and may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
       License. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for this program.

SEE ALSO

       fan(1), hotkey(1x), tpasswd(1), alarm(1), wmtuxtime(1x)

                                 24 July 1999