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Self Service Password Reset
From: "Di Fabio, Andrea" <adifabio () NSU EDU>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 13:10:51 -0500
Experts, I am seeking your feedback on how to implement Self Serice Password Reset. We have just finished the development and testing of a in house, web based password reset program. We are now looking at how to deploy it and are seeking feedback from institutions that already have experience with it. Here some of the questions that we discussed and to which we are seeking feedback. 1. Do we want to force users to register their profile and if so, what is the best approach for doing so? 2. Is the forced registration different for existing and new faculty? Is it different for existing and new students? 3. Should we force our new accounts to go through a registration workflow that includes creating the profile? Should we do the same for existing accounts? One of the most discussed topic, was the "How is someone going to use the self service password reset if they can't even logon to a PC to begin with?" We do not have MS programmers capable of rewriting the GINA and personally I would not feel comfortable pushing an in-house built GINA campus-wide. Some of the suggestions ranged from creating a guest account, using kiosks, using your neighbor's PC, dedicating some PC in the labs to calling the helpdesk as the last resort. Any thoughts, ideas, comments, suggestions? Thanks.
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- Self Service Password Reset Di Fabio, Andrea (Feb 04)
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- Re: Self Service Password Reset Cal Frye (Feb 04)
- Re: Self Service Password Reset Andrew Calcutt (Feb 04)
- Re: Self Service Password Reset Schumacher, Adam J (Feb 05)