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Creating the supervisor password

When you first enter Time, security is not activated and the only valid password is that of the supervisor. If you do not create a supervisor password, any user could accidentally or intentionally set up a supervisor password and turn password protection "on", thereby preventing other users from accessing the file.

This chance of the unplanned implementation of the Time protection system is the reason we highly recommend the setting of a unique supervisor password as a minimum before the program is used.

Protection is set at the file level, not the program level. If you are using more than one company file, protection needs to be set in each file.

The default supervisor password ("sup") information is stored at the program level. Once you open a file and change the supervisor password it is stored with the data file from then on, even if you revert to "sup" as the password. Each data file can have different supervisor passwords from each other. Once a supervisor password is created, access to the protection area of the software is restricted. Only those possessing the Supervisor password can enable or disable the protection system.

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