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Reset user passwords in Domino

Hello,

I have a domino server 8.5.3 and I need to reset everyone's password. Is there a way to do this in bulk so that I don't have to log into each account, such as with a batch file or something? I would like to be able to reset a group of accounts and assign them the password.

Just in case this matters, everyone accesses their mail through the browser or through the IMAP protocol.

If this this can be done in a batch file or some type of command line then I would appreciate an example on how to do this.

Thank you.

Sjef Bosman

There are (at least) two passwords in Domino: the password required to open a Notes client and the Internet password. The first cannot be changed programmatically (AFAIK), the 2nd one is fairly easy to change: it is just a field in a document. Do you want to give everyone the same password? Seems like a bad idea, so let's assume you want to generate a random password for every user, all different. Such an agent can be developed. How's your LotusScript these days?

jhieb

ASKER

Oh my. I haven't run lotus script in years, and back then someone helped me. Shall I say, lousy?

It sounds like what I need is to be able to reset the Internet password for each user since I would just be focusing on the IMAP protocol. Is this correct?

I would prefer to give each person the same password because it is easier, but you are probably right. A random password probably better as long as I had the user name and password for each user. I would have to be able to keep track of it somehow, and I suppose by display name,email address and password would be easiest.

Sjef Bosman

Hope you read French, because this page gives you almost exactly what you need:
http://www.blogotec.fr/lotus/modification-mot-de-passe-internet/

jhieb

ASKER

No, unfortunately I can't read French and it seems that the code is also non-English. I tried translate.google.com to see if it would help but it does not. Thanks anyway.

Sjef Bosman

I'll try to translate it for you, tomorrow, if you don't mind... Sorry for now.

Sjef Bosman

Well, at a second glance, the agent doesn't exactly do what I hoped it would. Parts of it are useful, but it sets the passwords of all selected users to the same identical string. It's a good starting point, which is nice.

I'd suggest you prepare a file in Excel, to be saved as CSV, that contains lines with username,generatedpassword, one line for each user. Or do you want to do it the other way round: the agent visits all User documents, generates a password, changes it in the User document and prints a list of all users+passwords modified (e.g. in a file)?

Will you do the coding yourself?

jhieb

ASKER

Thanks. No, I wasn't planning on doing the coding. I was hoping to find an example how to do this.

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jhieb

ASKER

I got called out of town and am now back in the office. I haven't a chance to look at this, but I will accept the code and test it out. Thank you very much for this help. I appreciate it.

Sjef Bosman

Thanks. Don't hesitate to post here if it doesn't work!