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 console tree, select Policies.
3. Select the necessary policy and double-click to open the policy properties.
4. In the policy window, select Data Encryption → Common encryption settings.
5. In the Templates block, click the Help button.
6. In the window that opens, 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.
7. 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.

8. Save your changes.

Limited support for characters in Authentication Agent help messages

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

• Basic Latin alphabet (0000 - 007F)
• Additional Latin-1 characters (0080 - 00FF)
• Extended Latin-A (0100 - 017F)
• Extended Latin-B (0180 - 024F)
• Uncombined extended ID characters (02B0 - 02FF)
• Combined diacritical marks (0300 - 036F)
• Greek and Coptic alphabets (0370 - 03FF)
• Cyrillic (0400 - 04FF)
• Hebrew (0590 - 05FF)
• Arabic script (0600 - 06FF)
• Additional extended Latin (1E00 - 1EFF)
• Punctuation marks (2000 - 206F)
• Currency symbols (20A0 - 20CF)
• Letter-like symbols (2100 - 214F)
• Geometric figures (25A0 - 25FF)
• Presentation forms of Arabic script-B (FE70 - FEFF)

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.