Re: Password hints

[Roger Safian <r-safian () NORTHWESTERN EDU>]

At 05:57 PM 12/12/2008, Brian Kaye put fingers to keyboard and wrote:
> Why not allow them to create their own challenge question with some
> appropriate scan of the question and answer?

FWIW, in our case, we wanted to create a system that the users
could use online.  If you allow users to create their own questions,
and you want a self remediation online access, then they need to
answer their question exactly the same.  It doesn't always work that
way, since people forget things like capitalization, etc.


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