Regular Pwd Changing 1

[NevG]

Hi gang

Can anybody please help me with the right method or procedure to get my users to change their login password regularlry. I have toyed with checking the date on at certain points in the month having them go and change it, accompanied by a session variable to see if they have changed otr not.

I have also toyed with the idea of cookies, but having never worked with cookies before am a little reluctanct to attack it without some advice.

Which is the easiest and most secure route to take ?

Thanks for any help

Nev

 

[Geee]

This is how I would approach the problem. Im not saying its the best way but these are my initial thoughts. Presuming you have a table somewhere that has fields Username and Password, I would add another field to that table which holds the date the password was last changed. Then, during your password authentication script you could check that the last changed date was less than a month ago (I have code to compare dates, let me know if you need it). If that is true the user can carry on, otherwise he gets redirected to the password change page.

What do you think?

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[jofarrell]

Hi G

Thats a great idea and I think I will use it If I have date compare problems I may bother you if you dont mind

Joanne