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Title: Password Changing
Post by: Ashley on April 26, 2003, 06:23:36 PM

I would like users on my network to be able to change their normal userid passwords within windows 98 or XP is this possible?

Can SME be setup to prompt the user to change their password say every 30 days like Windows NT?  Thank You

kind regards,

Ashley

Title: Re: Password Changing
Post by: Ray Mitchell on April 26, 2003, 09:32:03 PM

The answer is in the handbook, on the instal CD in the documentation folder, have you read it yet ?
Also look in server manager- Review configuration for the URL

Regards
Ray

Title: Re: Password Changing
Post by: Ruthy Camden on May 01, 2003, 09:37:07 PM

Hi,

Version: 5.6u4
The manual says you can allow users to change their newly created accounts and passwords at www.mydomain.com/user-password. On the LAN, this works fine.

I've set www.mydomain.com to publish globally, and I can view the default page from outside my network. However, when I use www.mydomain.com/user-password, I get the message http 403 forbidden. "You are not authorized to view this page."

Question: Is user changing of passwords designed to work only in the LAN (for security reasons) or I am not doing something correctly?

How can I let them change their passwords after I have set the default password for them?

My users work out of the office most of the time and I want them to change their passwords periodically.

Regards,
Ruthy

Title: Re: Password Changing
Post by: Ray Mitchell on May 01, 2003, 09:56:20 PM

Learn to use the search function on these forums as a lot of things have been answered before. Search for user-password (all dates).

This question has been discussed a number of times.see
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=16500.msg63823#msg63823
and
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=16500.msg63823#msg63823

and there are others as well

regards
Ray Mitchell

Title: Helping newbies search for answers
Post by: Ruthy Camden on May 01, 2003, 10:51:07 PM

Thanks, Ray

I've tried searching, but on a slow dial-up and expensive connection, it can be quite a trying experience. I guess I gave up too soon. I apologise.

Every week, new users are discovering what a wonderful tool SME is. Most of us are the non-techie types (otherwise, we'd be using Debian or FreeBSD).

It would be of great help if the Search page has a list of the most commonly discussed topics, together with the links to the great howtos that experienced users have written.

This would help newbies search the phorums easily and post "redundant" questions less often.

Regulars like yourself would be less frustrated by seeing the same old topics asked so often.

Regards,
Ruthy

Title: Re: Helping newbies search for answers
Post by: Dave Liquorice on May 02, 2003, 12:00:42 AM

> This would help newbies search the phorums easily and post
> "redundant" questions less often.

A significant number of "redundant" questions seem to stem from the default serach period only being the last 30 days. I think this is the only place where the default period for a search is anything but everything. Changing the default to everything or even the last 6 months would, I feel, much reduce these FAQs.

Cheers
Dave.