NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS ON NOVELL NETWARE TIPS 11/02/04 Today's focus: Users share their password management tools
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], In this issue: * Password management tools available at Novell's Cool Tools Web ��site * Links related to Novell NetWare Tips * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by NetScout The deployment of VoIP is well underway and unstoppable, but the implementation and ongoing support is extremely challenging. To successfully support VoIP and other demanding applications, IT organizations need to change their approach to network management. Learn about readiness assessment, design and ongoing management in the Network World Special Report: Recommendations for Implementing and Managing Converged Networks. http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=85926 _______________________________________________________________ WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO GET AHEAD? An IT recruiter outlines the actions you should take to advance your career. Learn how you can gather the enduring respect of colleagues, clients and business associates without coming off as pompous or self-serving. Click here to find out what you need to do to get ahead: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=86107 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Users share their password management tools By Dave Kearns When Novell first put Lightweight Directory Access Protocol support into eDirectory, lots of network managers, script writers, Web masters and code warriors jumped at the opportunity to use the rock-solid Novell directory service as the authentication mechanism for what they were doing. Some even saw it as an opportunity to give better connectivity to their NetWare servers from non-Wintel platforms. (Wake up, Mac users, this one's for you!) One of the few drawbacks was that there seemed to be no way to tell users that their password was about to expire and that they should change it as soon as possible. Typically, they'd only find out after the expiration occurred and, of course, they were no longer able to login in order to change it. One more password reset call to the help desk, then. Now, thanks to some work by Randy Saeks, a support tech at Glenbrook North High School in Glenbrook, Ill., there's a way to let people know it's time to change their password. Saeks is providing a script for checking the number of grace logins left, as well as an application (for Mac OS X) that incorporates it. You can download the package from Novell's Cool Tools Web site (see http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/downloads/archive.zip). While we're on the subject of passwords and changes, there are two other user-contributed tools you should also consider. Changepass allows you to give password-changing privileges to ordinary users within strictly defined containers without the need to use ConsoleOne, NWAdmin or a Web-based solution. They can also be given the ability to reset grace logins. This latest version (No. 6, if you're counting) from Thomas Lok includes a neat redirector that ensures you're always using the latest versions of the Novell library files. Check it out at <http://www.nwfusion.com/nlnovell798> . Lok has another tool available from the Cool Tools site, called the Multi Password Changer, which allows for mass changes of user passwords (i.e., multiple users at one time) within a single container ( <http://www.nwfusion.com/nlnovell799> ). This would be a real boon to those with a large turnover in a short time frame (e.g., schools). In some security circles, the thought is that passwords are obsolete and other authentication methods need to be used. But while we still have passwords, tools that make them easier to use, change and administer are welcome in the network manager's bag of tricks. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS Microsoft users catch price break Network World, 10/25/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/102504msdualcore.html _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Dave Kearns Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley. He's written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print "Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Networks." His musings can be found at Virtual Quill <http://www.vquill.com/>. Kearns is the author of three Network World Newsletters: Windows Networking Tips, Novell NetWare Tips, and Identity Management. Comments about these newsletters should be sent to him at these respective addresses: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Kearns provides content services to network vendors: books, manuals, white papers, lectures and seminars, marketing, technical marketing and support documents. Virtual Quill provides "words to sell by..." 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