Re: User passwords.

In article <6E8062F88A35CD4A87F381C638706DB6026F1FBC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Skeet, Nigel" <nigel.skeet@xxxxxx> writes 
Hi Robert,

Also, certain rules must be applied to the new password 

Remember MPE user passwords aren't case sensitive and don't allow
special chars so you're restricted to alpha-numeric.

As for the user changing them for this to happen they'll need access to
MPE to use the ALTUSER command and I'm sure you don't allow normal users
to gain access to the MPE level... What sort of application front end do
you have ? Maybe you could include an option within that to allow the
user to change their passwords.

Nige...


A simple solution that I have seen

Have a job that runs as manager.sys that reads a message file that contains user,account,newpassword and issues the CI ALTUSER command, you can even get it to do a Tell to the user.account that their new password is now active.

Write a simple program or you can probably even use a CI command file that the user can run that gets their logon user and account var values and then prompts them for a new password, if you write a little program you could add validation rules, then just write the user,account,newpassword to the message file, then next time they logon...


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