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

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi Jennifer,

Another possible approach is to use a randomly-generated password when 
creating the account and then instructing users to use the "Create or 
reset your password" link on the "My Account" page to reset their 
password on the first login. The advantage to this method is users can 
then create their own passwords, which is a bit more secure than using a 
phone number or another number that might be easily obtained.

Kathy

On 02/03/2015 11:17 AM, Walz, Jennifer 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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Kathy Lussier
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Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
klussier at masslnc.org
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