Generate random passwords for OD users

[turnertapes]

Hi everyone,

Does anybody know if it is possible to get OD to generate random passwords for all the users that do not have a password already?

I need to import a list of users into OD and create different passwords for each user until the user changes the password when they first login. The passwords and usernames will also need to be visible in a text document to allow the details to be passed on to the user.

Is it possible to script such a procedure or is this something Workgroup Manager can do?

Regards
P

[macinandy]

Hi tunertapes, have you looked at passenger? Don’t know about “passwords for all the users that do not have a password already” part but it should do what you need.
http://macinmind.com/?pid=2&progid=1&subpid=1

Cheers

[tlarkin]

I also second a nomination for Passenger. I wrote up a review and tech doc of it on my site.

[url]http://tlarkin.com/tech/passenger-v379-review[/url]

My article doesn’t touch on generating random passwords but that is a feature that is built into the App itself. Another thing you can do, is set a master password for all users and then flag every user account to force a password change at first log in.

You can write out the results to the comments and key words in WGM so you can look them up. It also generates reports before you export into import files which also shows the password in plain text.

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