Hi Jennifer,
Another possible approach is to use a randomly-generated password when
creating the account and then instructing users to use the "Create or
reset your password" link on the "My Account" page to reset their
password on the first login. The advantage to this method is users can
then create their own passwords, which is a bit more secure than using a
phone number or another number that might be easily obtained.
Kathy
On 02/03/2015 11:17 AM, Walz, Jennifer wrote:
All –
Ok. I do appreciate that Evergreen has built in security
measures. They are very good. However, I am unclear about how we
can change some of those settings to better match our needs.
It appears to me that the default for user accounts passwords is
the last 4 digits of the patron phone number. But we don’t enter a
phone number most of the time. We use email as the required field
instead. Phone number is not required on the patron registration
form. So, then how do patrons know what their password is in order
to access their account through the opac interface? Is there a
way that we can set a default generic password to be populated into
the patron registration form? We had that on our previous system and
we could then tell all students to use that and then change their
password after they got into their account. How do we make this
work in Evergreen? How do students get into their account if they
don’t know what the password is?
Secondary issue: And I am assuming that somewhere in the templates
we can change the language of the prompt for the opac webpage?
Right now it tells patrons to use the last 4 digits of their phone
number – which is wrong information. Can someone tell me where that
text is so I can change it?
Thanks!
Jennifer
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Jennifer Walz, MLS - Head of ILS madness
Kinlaw Library - *Asbury University*
One Macklem Drive, Wilmore, KY 40390
859-858-3511 ext. 2269
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Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
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