Requiring Groupwise Passwords; Managing Groupwise Passwords - Novell GROUPWISE 7 - SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Manual

with both logins unless some additional password options are selected for them, as described in the
following sections.

70.1.2 Requiring GroupWise Passwords

Users are required to set passwords on their GroupWise mailboxes if they want to access their
GroupWise mailboxes in any of the following ways:

70.1.3 Managing GroupWise Passwords

When GroupWise passwords are in use in addition to network passwords, there are a variety of
things you can do to make GroupWise password management easier for your and to make the
additional GroupWise password essentially transparent for your GroupWise users.
NOTE: A GroupWise password can contain as many as 64 characters and can contain any typeable
characters.
Establishing a Default GroupWise Password for New Accounts
If you want to require users to have GroupWise passwords on their mailboxes, you can establish the
initial passwords when you create the GroupWise accounts. In ConsoleOne, you can establish a
default mailbox password to use automatically on all new GroupWise accounts, as described in
Section 13.1, "Establishing a Default Password for All New GroupWise Accounts," on page
you can set the password on each new GroupWise account as you create it.
Keep in mind that some situations require users to have passwords on their GroupWise mailboxes,
as listed in
Accepting eDirectory Authentication Instead of GroupWise Passwords
When you create users in eDirectory, you typically assign them network passwords and users must
provide those passwords when they log in to the network. If you want to make GroupWise mailbox
access easy for client users, you can select Allow eDirectory Authentication Instead of Password
(ConsoleOne > Tools > GroupWise Utilities > Client Options > Password). This allows GroupWise
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Using Caching mode or Remote mode in the GroupWise Windows client
Using Caching mode in the GroupWise Cross-Platform client
Using their Web browsers and the GroupWise WebAccess client
Using an IMAP e-mail client
Accessing a GroupWise mailbox as an external entity rather than as an eDirectory user
"Establishing a Default GroupWise Password for New Accounts" on page 1112
"Accepting eDirectory Authentication Instead of GroupWise Passwords" on page 1112
"Using Novell SecureLogin to Handle GroupWise Passwords" on page 1113
"Allowing Windows to Cache GroupWise Passwords" on page 1113
"Using Intruder Detection" on page 1113
"Resetting GroupWise Passwords" on page 1113
"Synchronizing GroupWise Passwords and LDAP Passwords" on page 1114
Section 70.1.2, "Requiring GroupWise Passwords," on page
203. Or
1112.