I keep track of the PIN's as they are assigned. I
don't know how many times I've needed to look them up for PI's who forgot
what it was. It's really much quicker than having to login to
FastLane and assign a new one.
I am including a message I received from Carolyn Miller in response to my
question about this subject.
-----begin message-----
Diane,
Your second alternative is what will happen - you will assign a
temporary
password which they will have to change the next time they attempt to log
on
to FastLane. It is really critical to the electronic signature
project that
passwords be known by only the person signing the document (although
human
nature being what it is, there is nothing we can do to prevent the
person
from sharing his/her password with others).
--Carolyn
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diane M Meyer
[SMTP:xxxxxx@iastate.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 3:40 PM
> To: Miller, Carolyn
> Subject: Re:
FastLane Conversion from use of PINs to Passwords
>
> Carolyn,
>
> Thanks for the update! I can follow and support all of your
points. As a
> FastLane administrator, I do have one question. I receive
numerous calls
> from PI's asking for their PIN because they have forgotten it.
Will there
> be a way for me to look it up for them or do I just have to assign
a
> temporary one (as mentioned below) and have them login and change it
to
> something they will, hopefully, remember next year?
>
> At 10:01 AM 2/8/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>
> 6) if a
research administrator changes an individual's password,
> the individual is required to change the password to something else
as a
> part of the next log-on sequence.
-----end message-----
Diane M. Meyer |-| Budget/COS/FastLane Specialist
Contracts & Grants, Iowa State University
221 Beardshear Hall
Ames, Iowa 50011
515-294-4567 (voice) 515-294-8000 (fax)
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