Setting a Default Password

[Stephen Hutchinson]

Hi all

I am about to setup a pilot group to start using Self Service. I'd like to set a default password for these users to login and later change there passwords. Is it possible to set a group of users with the same password? If so how ?

[Dan Munns]

I believe that you can set the newly created users a default password when they imported via the LDAP. You can set the LDAP to make changes on update and on creation so may be able to set passwords for users who have never logged on then, even if they have been imported via the LDAP tool before (I would just be careful with the LDAP tool as one of my engineers set a switch which then set all the LDAP imported users to 'Basic' and I had to log in with sysadmin to set all the 'Users' up again.

Other wise you can set the password via the Admin console.

[Victor]

@Stephen Hutchinson why not let them set their own password directly via the "Forgot Password" option?