password question.

[Alex Makhlin]

Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 14:30 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
>   
>> What I want to add is for all of the *new* accounts to cause a forced 
>> reset of the password at first login, no matter how long it takes for
>> them to get to logging in. Everyone's initial password is (something
>> like) ChangeMeOnLogin and I just don't want those to persist.
>>     
>
> When doing things like that, don't forget that some people won't know
> how to change their passwords.  Some people barely manage to type their
> own name to log on...  I had great fun ribbing mum about that the other
> week.
>
>   
We have always set-up new users and their restriction on an individual 
basis. This is also the same for MS products. What else do you need? You 
can copy an individuals  permissions  but  passwords are always based on 
an individual account creation.