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Force Password Change Upon 1st Login - How?

Maybe I'm missing something somewhere....

Unfortunately we had an incident with someone using NCM so I've begun the process of creating lots and lots of accounts for audit purposes. Because of some special circumstances, we cannot implement anything with Active Directory. Not to mention, everything is CAC-enabled and some of the accounts do not have CAC's (ex organization's tv for monitoring only). That means I'm going to have to create/manage around 70 or so accounts >.<

I started created accounts and stopped immediately. I'm not finding the option to force a password change upon someone's first login. Please tell me I'm just missing it somewhere. If that option isn't available, then it's a major fail in my book. As the administrator, I should only have to setup the account and give proper rights. The actual user should be forced to pick a password that is to their liking without having the ability to change their rights or passwords of other accounts.

I can give users the right to change passwords, but it's all or nothing. They either have access to mess with all accounts or they are stuck with whatever password I assign.

Please please tell me I'm missing something somewhere.....

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Sohail.Bhamani

This functionality does not exist yet. There are many customers who could use this. The one I am currently working with will end up having thousands of orion user accounts and figuring out the password change thing is kind of a bear without this functionality.

As for users changing their own password, this is possible without any additional permissions. You can always change your password once you have logged in. If you go to Settings, then Customize Menu Bars, you will be able to add a button to the menu bar for users that takes them to the password change spot on the site.

I cant remember if the button exists, but if not, create a new one and use the following url:

/Orion/Admin/ResetPassword.aspx

I know it says Admin in the link, but you do not need admin privileges to change your own password.

Sohail Bhamani

Loop1 Systems

http://www.loop1systems.com

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Sohail.Bhamani

I cant remember if the button exists, but if not, create a new one and use the following url:

/Orion/Admin/ResetPassword.aspx

I know it says Admin in the link, but you do not need admin privileges to change your own password.

Sohail Bhamani

Loop1 Systems

http://www.loop1systems.com

rjnicholson

Agreed. This is something that unless is tied to AD is a lacking functionality, and would be very beneficial in large enterprise environments.

patrick.walsh

Thanks Sohail. I did look and by default the view isn't there. I'll give this a shot.

However, even this doesn't fix the underlying problem. I can tell users to change their password, but many will not. If it is forced, then they have no choice and I'll know it has been changed. Not every company out there uses Active Directory. Functionality such as this increases the type of customers that SolarWinds can support.

To tie into this, I have no way to enforce password policies to ensure good strong passwords and comply with written directives. That's another discussion all together though lol.

Sohail.Bhamani

I agree with you fully. This is needed.