John, an IT specialist, was tasked with preparing a batch of laptops for deployment to new employees. However, when he tried to access the BIOS settings on one of the laptops, he was surprised to find that it was protected by an EFI password. The previous owner of the laptop had set the password, but had long since left the company, and no one knew what the password was.
efi-password-tool -d -p
For mid-range Intel Macs (2013–2017) where the RAM trick doesn't work, some users turn to third-party hardware. remove efi password