[IxDA Discuss] how to treat passwords when creating a new user

[Mark Canlas]

What exactly is the problem in question? Also, is the manager always
creating these accounts in bulk, or is this something that will happen only
when there are new operators (assuming once in bulk when the system is first
set up)?

What you could do is the Wordpress way (and I'm sure in many others) of
generating a random password for each user every time an account is created.
That way the system isn't vulnerable to opportunistic use of the skeleton
password.

-Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at lists.interactiondesigners.com [mailto:discuss-
> bounces at lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of Gil Barros
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 9:00 AM
> To: discuss at ixda.org
> Subject: [IxDA Discuss] how to treat passwords when creating a new user
> 
> I'm working on a project where one user creates the accounts for
> several other
> users (typically one manager to 4 to 20 operators). It's an equipment
> (not
> office environment, not web) and the operators may have only a numeric
> keypad.
> 
> ...
> 
> We're leaning towards the 1st option but it has it's problems. Does
> someone know
> of a better way to do this?