Just for a point of discussion,  setting these two password fields to random
numbers doesn't seem to provide any benefit to the administrator.  I'm
assuming these are required to be there rather than a blank space.   It
would be very beneficial to the administrator if something useable was put
into that field, even if they were all the same.  For example - maybe a
specific number such as 5 + extension number.   Or set them all to 1234 or
something similar.  This way, the end user can be instructed on what is
there, and how to change it, rather than the administrator having to change
all of them to something useable.

 

With a random number, the end user can't log into voicemail or the GUI to
change it until after the administrator makes a change since it is random
and hidden.

 

I'd recommending making it something standard using some method that allows
the administrator to know how it will be populated.   I can write a Jira or
add notes to any Jira that addresses this.   I suspect there will be many
opinions on this, probably a healthy discussion.

 

From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mircea Carasel
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 10:52 PM
To: Discussion list for users of sipXecs software
Subject: Re: [sipx-users] 4.6 Passwords

 

 

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Todd Hodgen <[email protected]> wrote:

It's not a bad idea.  Many voicemails will have a default of 0000 or 1111 or
something similar.  I have a default that I apply to all installations when
I import my file just so there is something there that I can convey to
everyone easily during training.

 

Todd,

With 4.6 we have two sets of credentials as you noticed instead of one

-Voicemail PIN which defaults to a random value of 4 digits - so we don't
set a constant default value, we generate a random sequence of 4 digits as a
default

-User password which stands for User Portal, XMPP, REST API, Open ACD
password (same for all of them) - this is the same here, we don't set a
constant default value, we generate a random sequence of 8 characters as a
default

 

Basically the administrator will have to manually set desired values

Another change regarding passwords is that now the SIP password is a random
sequence of 12 characters (instead of 8 as it was in 4.4)

 

Mircea

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