Creating Simple Passwords For Multiple Users - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Creating Simple Passwords for Multiple Users

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Select an option to identify the users to receive simple passwords.
Select all User objects in a context by typing in the context in the
NDS Context field.
Select all User objects in the NDS
Tree for User Objects.
NOTE:
Searching the entire NDS tree may take several minutes.
2
Select an option for choosing and communicating the password to the
user.
Send an e-mail to each user notifying them of their simple password
by clicking Send Password to User.
To use the Send Password to User feature, you must first use the
Access Mail Notification Control Page to set up NetWare Remote
Manager to perform e-mail notification.
The Access Notification Control Page is available by clicking the
configuration icon on the top of the screen. For more information, see
the NetWare Remote Manager Administration
Specify a common password by clicking User Supplied Password
and entering a password in the field provided.
The text entered in this field is used as the password for all selected
users receiving simple passwords.
3
(Optional) Use a script file to test the results before processing.
Before you commit to assigning simple passwords, you can run and
review a script file to make sure that you get the desired results.
3a
Click an option for selecting User objects and an option for choosing
and communicating the passwords as described above.
3b
Click Generate Script File and type a filename in the field provided.
3c
Click Start.
3d
Open and review the script file using a text editor.
3e
Repeat the above steps until the script file contains the appropriate
information.
3f
Click Process Script File and type the filename of the script in the
field provided.
4
Click Start to process the commands.
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tree by clicking Traverse Context
Guide.