Password Change Policies
Jeffrey J. Carpenter
jjc at unix.cis.pitt.edu
Sun Jun 30 12:24:35 AEST 1991
>Please answer the following questions (or as many as you have
>information for) and return them to me, I will post a summary message to
>the list.
>
>
>1. Do people needing to have their password go to a central site (like
>an Accounts Office) to get their password changed or can they go to any
>computing lab?
>
>2. Do you reset the password to the original password or do you set it
>to something else (what the user requests, what you assign, etc...)?
>
>3. Do you permit password changes over the phone? If so how do you
>verify that the user is who he says he is?
>
>4. Who is authorized to change passwords (Full time employees, part-time
>employees, accounts office people, lab operators, user consultants,
>etc...)?
>
>5. Please list any other comments not covered by the questions above.
>
I have compiled the responses to my original posting. It is too large to
post, so I have made it available for anonymous ftp at FTP.PITT.EDU in the
directory public/info/general/password-change-policies.txt. If you do not
have access to FTP, send me mail and I will mail the file to you.
Thanks to all who responded.
jeff
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Jeff Carpenter
University of Pittsburgh, Computing and Information Services
600 Epsilon Drive, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15238
jjc+ at cis.pitt.edu, jjc at pittvms.bitnet
+1 412 624 6424, FAX +1 412 624 6436
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