Re: User Account Management and System Upgrades

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<1c20712a-6dda-4b48-a568-3282c6114a22@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
KevinSmith <pleasedonotusethisaddress@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello

There's a table where I store all the user names. The user names match
FileMaker's own user accounts. This allows me to setup new users in my
custom created User Account Management area and the system will
automatically setup a login for them in all the files of the solution.
Passwords are not stored in the table I've setup; they are only stored
in the Accounts and Privileges section of the FileMaker files.

Now here's the problem: I like to be able to work on a development
copy of the system offline. To upgrade I import all the data from the
live system into the development copy. If a user has changed their
password since the development copy work started, these changes will
be lost. Can you recommend a solution?

Many thanks
Kevin Smith

Some thoughts in addition to what others have offered:

You can store "initial" passwords in a table with the user name, and set
up the scripts to create or enable user accounts from those, or to reset
passwords, but in those scripts that create or enable accounts or reset
passwords, you can specify "Expire Password." This will force the user
to create their own new password when they first log on.

The could do two things for you:

Give you the ability to reset the passwords to some initial value when
needed, but preserve security by forcing the users to change passwords
on first log-on.

This approach has the weakness that you have to communicate the initial
passwords to the users in a secure way when you do the password reset.
.

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