Email User Sez: "get Your Own Password!"

[leiavoia]

I have some folks using my domain email which they need, however i don't want to have to have to set up their passwords. I want to give them a default pw then have them change it according to their wishes without my further involvment. I looked in the two webmail systems and i don't see any options for it there. Is there any way for the people using my domain email to set their own passwords instead of me doing it manually? did i miss something obvious?

 

thanks for the help. i really appreciate this board :-)

[KevinW]

Just my opinion ... allowing the user to change their password is usually something you provide on a local (LAN) server. In setting up a web server for an organization, I've not seen where a user is allowed to changed their associated email password to the email/web server.

 

That is NOT something that should change very often.

 

Whwn I am setting up a new web domain/server for a customer, I've recently started to use an automatic password generator tool to create a random password. Then when I set up a particular user's email account, I use the generated password, and then document it along with my instructions to the user.

 

I have a simple such password generator on my web site. Go to http://www.kwsupport.com/csb and on the left column click on the link under Recent Postings fir the password generator.

 

HTH.

kw

[leiavoia]

Thanks. I've got some nifty perl pw-generators that work good for that. mostly i just wanted to know is if user could set up their own without "being watched" and having me set it up for them. What you are saying is "You're the admin, that's your job". I can live with that! thanks

[Head Guru]

Agreed!