Hi Joe, We had a similar issue in the past. We were able to push the last four digits of each person's SSN to the password field on creation.
Eric Cleereman -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joe D'Souza Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 11:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Automatic generation of passwords for imported users.. This is an idea I have but not sure if it would work... I wonder if anyone has tried something similar.. I wanted to generate random passwords for imported users, and email them this password after this user was created. I have a customer here who wants to move from Magic to Remedy, and I have got the user data from Magic. While importing this data to Remedy, I had this thought of generating a GUID, and using the last 10 characters of the GUID as the password. I do not really care if this is not a unique string across the board though chances are it might be unique since I'm picking the end of the string and not the beginning which tends to be not unique for consecutive records.. So on getting the last few characters - say 10 characters, I was thinking of putting it in a display only field, and pushing this value to the Password field during the creation of the record, and emailing the user this string using a filter with a `! as a post fix on its name.. Will this actually work to generate a password? Has anyone tried something similar before pushing a simple text string into the password field?? Joe No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.6.8/797 - Release Date: 5/10/2007 5:10 PM _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
