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From: John Earl <johnearl@400security.com> > In an organization with 5000+ users, how can any I.S. employee know that they are > actually reseting the password of the person that called, and not some imposter? > It's a very real problem. A common source of "forgotten" passwords is the rule that you must change your password every so often. If one uses the "old" password (or the previous two or so) passwords as the hint you can at least check that that was known. A separate hint file is probably a bad idea. If the password must be changed every so often, then so should the hint and you get into a mess with lots of exposures possible. +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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