Change Password

[riff]

The External Authenticated process doesn't allow the user to change password, so trying to enforce the "Must change password on next login" will cause issues, or allowing the user to change the password will also cause problems.

The question is: Does anyone know of a way to allow users to authenticate or change their password remotely from the web? I guess Filemaker is out of the loop now. What, am I looking at .NET now? What was Filemaker developers thinking -- am I expected to have all my users change their passwords locally at the Filemaker server? That's ridiculous. Where do I even start to look in order to accomplish this task? Thanx.

[Steven H. Blackwell]

The require users to change password at next log-on functionality applies to internal FileMaker Accounts only. The domain controllers, where the Accounts reside, control the users' changing of their passwords. It would be completely inapporpriate for FileMaker Pro to cointrol the behavior of these domain Accounts.

Steven

[Steven H. Blackwell]

I might add that there are some web based methods in Open Directory for doing this on demand. I suspect that in Active Directory there may be some dotNet approaches as well. Possibly I can find out something about that.

Steven