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Re: Self-service password reset utility/appliance??
From: Matthew Gracie <graciem () CANISIUS EDU>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 08:30:03 -0400
SCHALIP, MICHAEL wrote:
Hi folks..... We're havin' fits.....simple password resets are eating us alive. We run Banner/Luminus ("myCNM" portal), and an Active Directory/LDAP. Luminus authenticates through Active Directory - so there is a single authorization mechanism, but.....we are spending a HUGE amount of time simply trying to manage student passwords. Luminus has a password reset capability that we're using (it supposedly resets the passwords directly in AD, but there seems to be a time lag or it simply isn't working in some cases??) What I'm wondering - what kind of software utility or appliance you all are using to allow students to perform their own password resets.......and, do you like it?....love it?.....hate it? Thanks, Michael
We use an in-house web application that authenticates the user against our Sun LDAP implementation, and then pushes out the requested password reset to the different directories we use (Sun, eDirectory, AD) using standard LDAPS. Do you have in-house developers who might be capable of rolling something like this? -- Matt Gracie (716) 888-8378 Information Security Administrator graciem () canisius edu Canisius College ITS Buffalo, NY http://www2.canisius.edu/~graciem/graciem_public_key.gpg
Current thread:
- Re: Self-service password reset utility/appliance?? Moore, Frank (Jul 01)
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- Re: Self-service password reset utility/appliance?? Matthew Gracie (Jul 01)
- Re: Self-service password reset utility/appliance?? Lustig, Derek (Jul 01)
- Re: Self-service password reset utility/appliance?? Cal Frye (Jul 01)