Setting up Passwords for Webaccess

[LE25TP]

We are now ready to roll out Webaccess for our 2000 students from both in and out of college, but it seems as though I have got to set a password for each individual user, whereas I would like to use the netware password (or at least as a starting point. Does anyone know of a way of doing this please?

 

[lhite]

Where I work the GW Admins just let it be known that if you want to be able to access your email over the Internet you must first set a password. It worked pretty well in our case.

-Larry

 

[DHesse]

Tools > Options > Environment You can set the password somewhere in there. Can't remember exactly where but you'll find it.

 

[KenB]

You should be able to set a default Password for everyone in the Post Office with Console One. Drill down the Tree on the left hand side until you see the PO Object, right click, select GroupWise Utilities, Client Options. Then click on the Security Icon and type in the password then click OK. You can set most of the Client Options for Everyone from here and some of the options can even be locked out so the user can not change them. This also can be done with NWAdmin from the Tools Menu.

HTH
Ken

 

[LE25TP]

Thanks lhite, but are you suggesting the user could set their own password? How would they do that without going into consoleone or nwadmin?

Similarly DHesse, that's OK for one user, but didn't want to set all 2000 that way.

KenB suggests the same password for everyone, again, how does the user set up their own.?

 

[lhite]

From the client (not Internet but the network client):

TOOLS, OPTIONS, SECURITY, PASSWORD.

If they will only have the WebAccess then this will not work, as the users would first have to have a password.

-Larry

 

[KenB]

You can use the Console One yourself to set all the GW passwords at the same time not the users. Then the first time they use either WebAccess or their GW Client they can choose to set the password to one they prefer. The users never need to run Console One or NWAdmin. Also the GW Password is not the same as the NDS password. If they are the same and you use Client32 to login to the network the default GW setting allows for automatic authentication to GW.

HTH
Ken