Is it possible to change a GroupWise user's...
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Sep 2001
Q.
Is it possible to change a GroupWise user's password using a GroupWise API? Additionally, can the API be intercepted to allow password quality to be checked before it's changed?
A.
You can "clear" and "set" a GroupWise user's password by using the GroupWise Administrative Object API--assuming you have administrative rights. However, when GroupWise engineers wrote the API, they did not want to provide a method to "get" the password.
A new "Object" API method will also soon be available which will allow any user to change their own password. It currently does not exist in the shipping GroupWise Object API. GroupWise Engineering has recently added an API that allows a user to change his own password.The API requires both the old and the new password. It will be included in SP1 for GW 6.0. My understanding is that SP1 will be released in September or October. Also, please note that this is being added to the Object API - not the admin API - and it requires knowledge of the old password.
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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