RE: Forced password change

[Fred McIlvain <FRED.McILVAIN@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree.  Staff are unwilling to make changes to their passwords on their own, and I'd be glad to have something that requires it.  I'd also like to require that login passwords are changed regularly as well.  I do remember this being on an enhancement list as well, and I thought it was coming in one of the 2002 releases.

Checking the pwdate in the records is a pain, but I've been known to do that and nudge the users.  Didn't the password records also contain a create date at one time?

Fred McIlvain
Support Systems Analyst, Senior
Library Instruction, Systems and Technology (LIST)
ASU Libraries, Tempe, AZ  85287-1006
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[mailto:innopac-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Sue Boggs
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 3:48 PM
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Subject: Re: Forced password change


At 03:08 PM 10/22/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >>> Wilcocks.J@xxxxxxxxxx 10/10/03 03:33AM >>>
>Hi Everyone
>Does anyone know how to set up a way to force a password authorization
>change on a regular basis for Innopac.  Is this even possible?
>Thanks
>Julie

I would love it if this could be done Julie. I would almost swear it was an 
enhancement III talked about several years ago but then it disappeared in 
the final list. Maybe it was just on the IUG enhancement list for voting. 
It is just good password practice to change it on a regular basis. Now all 
we can do is nag. I think we managed to convince a lot of our staff members 
to change their password back in 1998 (we came up in 1992) but most haven't 
since then. When you think of the information about people that a hacker 
could find out if they were to acquire the right password (those of someone 
who could view patron records for instance), not to mention the havoc they 
could wreak in the catalog, it seems more important.

Sue

Sue Boggs
Cataloging & Library Technician
Technical Services

Library
University of Puget Sound
1500 N. Warner St. #1021
Tacoma, WA 98416-1021

(253) 879-2667
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