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Enforce Password Change Only

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Posted on by mebenz 3,815
I hate that Dynamics 2013 now disallows blank passwords when setting up users. On all previous versions, we would setup a user with a blank password. When that user logged in, the system forced them to setup a password. It worked great and the user is responsible to their password not Systems/IT. There is a checkbox to force the user to change their password at next login, however, that also enforces it to expire, which we do NOT want. So now we have to setup a dummy password and hope that the user will go into user preferences and change it, which they never do. I must be missing something because this is ridiculous.

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  • Mariano Gomez Profile Picture
    Mariano Gomez 26,225 on at
    RE: Enforce Password Change Only

    Mebenz,

    You are correct that users in GP 2013 cannot be setup with a blank password. However, if you make the default password something like "access" or "password", I don't think most users would have an issue with this.

    However, I did check, and both GP 2010 and 2013 display the same behavior when it comes to having the user change their password at next login. This is, if you check the Enforce Password Policy option, you are forced to check the Enforce Password Expiration in order to get the Change Password Next Login option. So in that respect, the functionality remains the same.

    Perhaps, you can look into Rockton Software's GP Toolbox which provides functionality to better manage password complexity and resets without having to depend on SQL Server password policies.

  • L Vail Profile Picture
    L Vail 65,271 on at
    RE: Enforce Password Change Only

    Hello Mebenz,

    What I do is just blank out all of the passwords from the SQL side of the deck. The user has to know there is no password, but when tries to log in without a password, the system will prompt him to create one.

    Kind regards,

    Leslie

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