Blank passwords are bad....I usually set my AD pw to their username,
then let them change it.
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On Behalf Of Josh Wisenbaker
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 11:37 AM
To: John Buell
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Subject: Re: Changing Passwords
On Wednesday, August 31, 2005, at 12:32PM, John Buell <email@hidden>
wrote:
>Having set up two computer labs for Macs authenticating against Active
>Directory, we've got 3300 or so students with default passwords that
>they have to change on their first logons. For many of them, the
>password is blank, and the Mac clients don't like this at all, so we
>reserved one of the PC labs to let the kids go sign in with their logon
>IDs the first time, set a password, and go back to the Mac lab. For
>those kids who do NOT have a blank password (because we've instituted
>an Active Directory policy change with passwords since setting up the
>initial batch), they can login, their Panther (10.3.9) client G4 or G5
>(one lab of each) tells them they have to change their password, but
>there's no way to back out of this like there is on a PC. Is this a
"feature"?
Well, if the password is expired, and they need to change it, why back
out? That would be my guess on the behavior.
Yes, blank passwords are a bad thing.
Josh
www.afp548.com
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