• Add password protection if ESET security product settings are not password-protected on client workstations
• Remove password protection if ESET security product settings are password-protected on client workstations
• macOS users—Lock settings set via policy
• macOS users—Add a privileged user in ESET endpoint product for macOS

Add password protection

 Endpoint users: Perform these steps on individual client workstations

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1. Open ESET Security Management Center Web Console in your web browser and log in.

2. Click Policies, select the policy that you want to modify and click Policies → Edit.

   Alternatively, click Policies → New Policy.

   

3. Click Settings. If you have selected New Policy in the previous step, select ESET Endpoint for Windows from the drop-down menu.

   

4. Click User Interface, expand Access Setup and click the toggle next to Password protect settings to enable it (select the option based on your Endpoint version).

   

5. Type the password in the New password and Confirm password fields. Click OK to save your changes.

   

6. Click Finish to save your changes.

Client computers assigned to this policy will receive the changes the next time they check in to the ESET Security Management Center Server. Assign a policy.

Remove password protection

Follow the steps below to remove password protection from ESET security product settings on client workstations. You have two options:

1. Edit the policy used to set the password protection:

   Follow step 4 in the previous section and click the toggle next to Password protect settings to disable the password.

2. Create a new policy to disable password protection:

   1. Create a new policy for endpoint products for Windows in ESET Security Management Center.

   2. Click Settings → User Interface, expand Access Setup and click the full gray dot next to Set password to enable it (select the option based on your Endpoint version). Click Continue and proceed to the Assign section to assign the policy.

      

This setting forces no password (removes the password) on the client computers selected in the Assign section of the Policy.

macOS users—Lock settings set via policy

ESET Management Agent password protection is not available for macOS client computers running ESET endpoint product for macOS.

To prevent users from editing settings on a macOS client computer, verify that all settings set via policy in ESET Security Management Center are locked:

Click the full grey dot next to chosen settings in a policy to set and lock these settings (the full grey dot turns blue when enabled).

If a policy is set and locked via ESET Security Management Center, it cannot be configured locally in the ESET endpoint product on a macOS client computer, unless the user has privileges.

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macOS users—Add a privileged user in ESET endpoint product for macOS

Privileged users on macOS client computer

Be aware that privileged users using an endpoint security product on a macOS client computer are able to uninstall the endpoint product.

ESET recommends configuring and locking the settings for the endpoint product via policy in ESET Security Management Center.

On a macOS client computer, you can specify privileged users who can modify settings in the policy in the endpoint product for macOS.

1. Open the main window of your ESET endpoint security product for macOS. 

2. Click Setup → Enter application preferences.

3. In the Tools section, click Privileges.

4. In the Users list, select users that you would like to add to the Selected Users list and click Add. Use the Remove button to remove users if needed. Close the Privileges dialog window.

   

   The users that have been added to Selected Users list now have privileges to modify settings in a policy in the endpoint security product for macOS.