Using the Reissue Passwords Wizard

You can use the Reissue Passwords Wizard to change user passwords.

If the user is locked, use “Reset” button on “Edit User” screen, as described in How to Add a New User .

Changing User Passwords

To change user passwords:

  1. Navigate to the view:

    Path: System / Archibus Administrator - User and Security / Reissue Passwords Wizard (ab-reissue-passwords.axvw)

    The Manage User Passwords form appears.

  2. Select the check box for a user from the User Accounts list, or click Select All to change all users at once. You might want to use the console to filter for all users of a particular role to change their passwords at one time.
  3. Click Change Password .

    The Change Password pop-up window appears.

  4. Type in the new password, and click OK .

Changing User Passwords When Using Archibus Authentication with Password Encoding Enabled

Administrators can change users passwords in an environment that is using Archibus authentication with password encoding enabled:

  1. Navigate to the view:

    Path: System / Archibus Administrator - User and Security / Reissue Passwords Wizard

    The Manage User Passwords form appears.

  2. Do not use the Change Passwords button; instead, check off the users whose passwords you want to change, and click the Next button
  3. On the second page of the wizard, use Reset Password to set a random new password for the user.
  4. Encrypt those passwords.
  5. Load the System / Archibus Administrator - User and Security / Add or Edit User Roles task.
  6. Click Flush Cached User Accounts and Roles. For information on this action, see the User Help topic, Archibus Web Central User's Guide / Archibus Administrator - User and Security / User Management / Flush Cached User Accounts and Roles .
  7. Email the user their temporary passwords, instructing them to sign in with this temporary password.
  8. The user receives a "this is your temporary password" email, and can sign in to change their password to something of their own choosing.

Resetting Passwords

As an administrator, you can have the system generate a new plain text password, re-encrypt the new password, and email it to the user by doing the following:

  1. Navigate to the view:

    Path: System / Archibus Administrator - User and Security / Reissue Passwords Wizard

    The Manage User Passwords form appears.

  2. Select the user from the User Accounts list, and click Next to proceed to the second page of the wizard.

    The Manage User Passwords screen appears.

  3. Now you can run the following actions on all selected user accounts:

    • Reset Passwords . Generates new plain text passwords for these accounts.  This action shows a popup that prompts you for the key phrase to use as a seed value to hash with the user name, making the resulting password difficult to reverse engineer. When you click OK, this action resets the password.

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    • Send Passwords by Email .  Sends these plaintext passwords to users by email.  The email urges the user to log in and change the password as soon as possible.