RE: Password "Hint" Feasibility

[Chris Bipes <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We have a reset program that is given to managers that sets the password to
a default and expired.  It adopts authority and uses our internal
application security.  Let there bosses reset their passwords.  No longer an
IS issue and managers frown on their employees.

Christopher K. Bipes    mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com
Sr. Programmer/Analyst  mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com
CrossCheck, Inc.        http://www.cross-check.com
6119 State Farm Drive   Phone: 707 586-0551 x 1102
Rohnert Park CA  94928  Fax: 707 586-1884

If consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, only geniuses work here.
Karen Herbelin - Readers Digest 3/2000

-----Original Message-----
MacWheel99@aol.com wrote:
 
> When people forget their passwords, we put their sign-ons as password
expired
> with user name as the password, then they sign on as that & immediately
have
> to change it to somethng they can hopefully remember without writing it
down.
>  This has got us out of the business of some MIS person assigning
passwords.
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