On Jan 23, 2006, at 9:23 AM, Steve Plemmons wrote:
> When Pilot first started, I was given a stack of PIN notifications
> for all
> of the faculty/staff in my department. I have kept that stack all
> these
> years and it has come in very handy when people had forgotten their
> passwords.
>
> I'm wondering if it would be possible for an interface to be setup
> whereby
> an administrator from each department would have access to PIN's
> for the
> members of their departments or simply the ability to reset
> passwords for
> their users. This would decrease overhead for the CL and make some
> forgetful people very happy.
While I understand where you're coming from, this seems to be a
security risk. The more exposure we allow to PINs, the less secure
they are, by definition. I will bring this up at our next meeting,
but I believe this will concept be summarily rejected.
./muk
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