If you are issuing the same password and asking the PI to change it
immediately, you may be running into some challenge particularly if you want to
stick with an algorithm.

What I have experienced in adding or reinitializing current PINs, is that
Fastlane will not allow you to use the same password unless the individual's
password  has been changed 3 times since its last use.  Confusing, I know!  In
other words if your password is FASTLANE1, you can't use it again until you
have gone through FASTLANE2 and FASTLANE3.  Then you can go back to FASTLANE1.

We want to maintain our algorithm.  When I add a user or reinitialize, I
basically provide them with two passwords; one for their initial sign on into
the system after the addition or change and the second and "primary" one for
them to change to which maintains the integrity of our algorithim.

I am not doing global changes, so I can't address that at this time.

Regards,

Marcia Hamm Groover

Joe Titone wrote:

> At 01:46 PM 5/16/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> >The University of Michigan has almost 1000 registered FastLane users.  We
> >will use an algorithm to create a password for each person. It will take a
> >very long time to put these into the system one-by -one. We'd like to send
> >the info en mass, with some sort of streaming procedure.  Or other method
> >
> > Does anyone have a suggestion on how to do this?  Thanks
> >Bob
> >
> >Robert Beattie
> >Manager of Electronic Research Administration and
> >     Senior Project Representative
> >The University of Michigan
> >xxxxxx@umich.edu
>
> I may not understand the procedure correctly, but it appears NSF does not
> want the SRO to know the PI's password.  Accordingly, we are not doing
> anything to convert PIN's to passwords.  For new signups, I will be issuing
> the same password each time and advising the PI to change it immediately.
>
> Joe Titone
> Dept. of Contracts and Grants
> Univ. of Southern California
> xxxxxx@mizar.usc.edu
> 213 740-6069
>
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