[Bodington-developers] Creating users/change password? (for FAQs)

[Colin T. <col...@co...>]

I'll reply off list to this user, but in the interests of helping Jane
generate the FAQs (with our contributions, of course!):

> A couple of specific questions I had was:
> 1. I created an account for myself which appeared to require 'sys' at
> the beginning of the username. Do all usernames have to have a prefix
> such as this?( I was trying to set up an account with
> sysadmin privs but
> I didn't appear to be granted them)
> 2. How do I change the sysadmin/other user passwords?


1. Do all usernames still require some kind of prefix? I think Antony did
some work at Oxford to remove the requirement of having the campus prefix...

2. (from Paul T:)
"Yes, as sysadmin you can (create and) use the User Directory tool to reset
any passwords to a random password of 6 characters; (create and) use the
Personal Data Tool to change your own password to one of your choice."

Maybe we need to flesh that out a bit...

Any volunteer to modify the creation code to create a User Directory tool
during installation?

Colin

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Colin Tatham
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