This is our new default policy, but that's not what we started the mass
creation of 3000 HS students with, unfortunately.
On 8/31/05 12:32 PM, "MEYER, JASON" <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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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>
>
> 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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