And the exact reason Dan states is why we have never, until now, forced
users to change their default passwords. Since many of our users are
Windows users they would be calling almost immediately saying they couldn't
get in. We do have a web app that allows them to change their passwords via
a browser on their machine but they don't seem to read that far on the
email.
We've decided that from now on, for security and HIPPA reasons, that users
will HAVE to change their password from the default no matter what. Since
most of our users are actually in our lab when they request an account it
just means we have to sit there and make them change it.
Thanks to everyone for the help and suggestions. We've already been able to
identify the "slackers" in the password department and are in the process of
getting them to change their passwords.
Tim Wilkinson
ITC-ACHS
University of Virginia
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> From: Dan Shoop <email@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:49:57 -0400
> To: Tom Anderson <email@hidden>, <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: How to check passwords
>
> At 12:50 PM -0600 6/29/05, Tom Anderson wrote:
>> Just in case you didn't know, the Workgroup Manager can do this all
>> for you. Click on a user then click the Advanced tab. From there
>> click "Options..." and you can set it up so that the user must
>> change their password on their next login. You can also set up the
>> policy for how often they must change it.
>
> This is all very nice unless you care about users doing things other
> than AFP or logging in to the/a Mac's console. If you care about
> things like ssh, ftp, HTTP, DAV, et al, this is distinctly non-useful.
>
> How are your users "logging in"? (Or should I say, "by what means are
> your users logging in?")
> --
>
> -dhan
>
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