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Sophos Central Device Encryption - Password (OSX)

Samuel Brien

Hi

 

I was just wondering if you can change the password for the Sophos Central Device Encryption.

 

Is this as simple as changing the user password via System Preferences?



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    Hi Samuel,

    Please do brief a little more about what password are you referring to? So that I would be able to get you the right solution.

    Haridoss Sreenivasan
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  • 0 in reply to Haridoss Sreenivasan

    Hi Haridoss

     

    Sorry, Well OSX has two types of passwords. One is the master password (which by default is not set/it is used to overide other user's passwords), and the second one is the user password (which mine is the Administrator type user). The Administrator user password is currently set on my endpoint.

     

    I have not set up the Sophos Central Device Encryption yet, as I'm unsure as to if I go ahead with the encryption, my current user password will be set in stone.

    I did initially enabled the encryption and a prompt showed asking for my OSX user password, with an option to postpone or encrypt.

    I was just wondering if after encrypting the internal drives on the OSX endpoint, if I was then able to change the encryption password via the OSX user settings (if the encryption/osx user password were one in the same or not)...

     

    I hope this is clear enough to understand what I'm talking about!

     

    Cheers :)

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  • 0 in reply to Haridoss Sreenivasan

    Hi Haridoss

     

    Sorry, Well OSX has two types of passwords. One is the master password (which by default is not set/it is used to overide other user's passwords), and the second one is the user password (which mine is the Administrator type user). The Administrator user password is currently set on my endpoint.

     

    I have not set up the Sophos Central Device Encryption yet, as I'm unsure as to if I go ahead with the encryption, my current user password will be set in stone.

    I did initially enabled the encryption and a prompt showed asking for my OSX user password, with an option to postpone or encrypt.

    I was just wondering if after encrypting the internal drives on the OSX endpoint, if I was then able to change the encryption password via the OSX user settings (if the encryption/osx user password were one in the same or not)...

     

    I hope this is clear enough to understand what I'm talking about!

     

    Cheers :)

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