[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] user passwords for accounts - default?

[Yamil Suarez]

Jeniffer,

I work at an academic library an we have set up EG to use our
student's ID numbers as the default password, though I don't remember
right now how it was done by ESI. I remember it being something
simple, I am sure somebody else here knows how.

We then customized 3  TPAC templates files to make the login form
explain to students how to log in.

The files are found in this directory, in a typical EG install

/openils/var/templates/opac/parts/login/


1) form.tt2    - this file lets you customize most of the login form


2) help.tt2    - this file lets you customize the display of
information on how patrons can get help with the form: "Visit our FAQs
section for answers to common questions about how to use your
account."


3) password_hint.tt2    - this file lets you customize the message
concerning what their password is set to:  "If this is your first time
logging in, please enter the last 4 digits of your phone number.
Example: 0926"

Good luck,
Yamil








On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Walz, Jennifer <jlwalz at asbury.edu> wrote:
> All –
>
>
>
>    Ok.  I do appreciate that Evergreen has built in security measures.
> They are very good.   However, I am unclear about how we can change some of
> those settings to better match our needs.
>
>
>
>    It appears to me that the default for user accounts passwords is the last
> 4 digits of the patron phone number.   But we don’t enter a phone number
> most of the time.  We use email as the required field instead.   Phone
> number is not required on the patron registration form.   So, then how do
> patrons know what their password is in order to access their account through
> the opac interface?       Is there a way that we can set a default generic
> password to be populated into the patron registration form?   We had that on
> our previous system and we could then tell all students to use that and then
> change their password after they got into their account.    How do we make
> this work in Evergreen?    How do students get into their account if they
> don’t know what the password is?
>
>
>
> Secondary issue:   And I am assuming that somewhere in the templates we can
> change the language of the prompt for the opac webpage?      Right now it
> tells patrons to use the last 4 digits of their phone number – which is
> wrong information.    Can someone tell me where that text is so I can change
> it?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Jennifer
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> Jennifer Walz, MLS - Head of ILS madness
> Kinlaw Library -  Asbury University
> One Macklem Drive, Wilmore, KY 40390
> 859-858-3511 ext. 2269
> jlwalz at asbury.edu
>
>



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Yamil Suarez, MCS
Library System Administrator/Developer

Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston St
Boston, MA 02215

ysuarez at berklee.edu
617-747-2617