Jim Van Meggelen wrote:
Here's a wish list I sent to Digium:
- new users are required to change password on initial login
- users not permitted to use trivial passwords (e.g. 000000 or 123456)
Both good ideas.
- users will be required to change their passwords periodically (on a preset
schedule that will give a warning)
This is a bad idea from a security perspective, as people always ignore
the warnings and wind up trying to pick
something on the fly at the last minute, winding up with the
most-nearly-trivial password they can get away with
and/or getting locked out. A Nortel vmail at one of my clients has
this, and everybody hates it; the users as above,
and the admins for all the time they spend resetting passwords. This
whole security shopping list sounds like you've
used this system or a similar one and had better results.
- the system will prevent the administrator from obtaining personal
passwords. Forgotten passwords will require a reset to default
This is a good idea!
- unauthorized intrusion attempts will be logged
- exceeding max login attempts will lock up the mailbox until the
administrator resets it
- user can record and store at least four greetings
Good.
- callers can transfer a message by name or extension
- Ability to call forward PBX phone from within the mailbox
- Multiple language voice prompts (English, French, Cantonese, German)
> - new user tutorial is available
(presumably also in those languages - did you mean online or in print?
"Whatya mean I have to login before I can learn how to login?" :-)
- System can emulate interface digits from other voicemail systems
I like this idea, if I understand it correctly. You would have a
selection of third-party
vmail systems' digit-to-function mappings in a file like this, and an
Option to choose one:
[rogers]
DELETE=7
SAVE=9
[companyX]
DELETE=5
SAVE=3
The system would then speak, in normal use, "To save this message, press
${SAVE}" (substituted!) and so on. Neat plan.
- Ability to re-route messages marked "private" to other mailboxes
- Networking voicemail systems (i.e. forwarding messages to users on other
voicemails)
- Centralized voicemail (including Remote message waiting notification)
I've been thinking about this a fair bit,
You certainly have! Thanks for sharing your ideas.
Ian
