Re: Advisory on (Award) BIOS default/backdoor passwords

[rnicolas () GMX NET (Nicolas Rachinsky)]

> > You have to type AWARD?SW on a German keyboard to get AWARD_SW.
>
> OK, then Award does a flawed conversion to ASCII. Maybe it assumes
> american keyboards. Then maybe we have to assume that with some keyboards
> award.sw is allright too.
I think the BIOS assumes a US American keyboard.

> Regarding AWARD_PW, that was on an german keyboard as well? I wonder if
> german keyboards might be really weird and come in two different setups
> with different scancdes for underscore, that might explain it.
I think I used the American Layout (But I can't find out because I'm no
longer at school)

> Better to list a password from [a-z] or [0-9]
The German keyboard layout swaps the z and y key in respect to the American

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