RE: Need to generate passwords

["Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Alan,

I know of some companies in which the user id is predictable and the
initial password is the same as the ID but set to *expired.  In this
case, if you knew that someone named John Smith was starting today and
you knew that the company followed a first initial/last name policy, you
could just sign on to the system as jsmith/jsmith and perhaps do some
damage.

I don't think that the problem is that someone is assigning passwords,
but that they were assigning them in a predictable pattern.

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> On Behalf Of alan shore
> Subject: Re: Need to generate passwords
>
> Why should auditing have a problem with you "assigning"  passwords.
Even
> if you have a program to generate a password, you will still need to
know
> what that password is so that you can inform the user. As s Savings
and
> Loan, we are constantly audited, both internal and external, and we
follow
> the same procedure. Someone assigns the password, with *EXPIRED. No
> problem what so ever.
> Good luck