Editing Authentication Agent help texts

Before editing help messages of the Authentication Agent, please review the list of supported characters in a preboot environment (see below).

To edit Authentication Agent help messages:

  1. Open the Kaspersky Security Center Administration Console.
  2. In the Managed devices folder in the Administration Console tree, open the folder with the name of the administration group to which the relevant client computers belong.
  3. In the workspace, select the Policies tab.
  4. Select the necessary policy and double-click to open the policy properties.
  5. In the policy window, select Data EncryptionCommon Encryption Settings.
  6. In the Templates section, click the Help button.

    This opens the Authentication Agent help messages window.

  7. Do the following:
    • Select the Authentication tab to edit the help text shown in the Authentication Agent window when account credentials are being entered.
    • Select the Change password tab to edit the help text shown in the Authentication Agent window when the password for the Authentication Agent account is being changed.
    • Select the Recover password tab to edit the help text shown in the Authentication Agent window when the password for the Authentication Agent account is being recovered.
  8. Edit help messages.

    If you want to restore the original text, click the By default button.

    You can enter help text containing 16 lines or less. The maximum length of a line is 64 characters.

  9. Save your changes.

Limited support for characters in Authentication Agent help messages

In a preboot environment, the following Unicode characters are supported:

Characters that are not specified in this list are not supported in a preboot environment. It is not recommended to use such characters in Authentication Agent help messages.

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