> Hi, > > I am wondering if there is a reason not to allow end user to set its > own sip password like pin? IMO, we should allow user to set its own > sip password, as sometime, password assigned by admin can be easily > forgotten.
> Allowing the user to choose his password opens the door for passwords like > '1234' which hare easily guessed and can result in very large phone > bills > at the end of the month... Also, because the user does not have to type in > the SIP password anywhere, I'm not sure there's any value in > having the > user even know what the SIP password is. What kind of use case do you have > in mind. > Here is an use case. My desk phone is not working for whatever reason, or I > am out of office, I would like to register a soft client, but > because the > admin is not reachable, and I don't remember my password, I don't have phone > service. It just happened to me, and I had been no phone for 3 days. > Currently, it completely depends on system admin. Talking about passwords like '1234', I think the proper way to handle this problem is to enforce some password rule, not to allow a simple one like that. Huijun _______________________________________________ sipx-dev mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-dev sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/
