Implementing a "Change Password upon next login" flag

[Seth_K]

Is there a simple way to implement a flag to force a user to change their password upon the next login?  

I can easily code a labview VI to embed in the LoginLogout sequence of FrontEndCallbacks that pops up and takes a password, then sets it using the User.Property.  

I thought about using a Custom Privilege, but that runs into the wrinkle of being always overriden by the GrantAll flag.  I've also thought about using a StationGlobal, but that could possibly be accidentally overwritten by a developer.  

Has anyone else gone through this problem and figured out an elegant solution?

Thanks in advance,

Seth

[~jiggawax~]

I've never done this but it is defnitely intriguing.  If I were to do it here's what I would do:

I would go through and add attributes to all the users.  I would set that attribute as some sort of timestamp.  Then in your login VI I'd check that attribute and if it is past a certain date I'd make them reset their password.  Once they do reset it then you set the attribute to the current date/time.  Seems simple and elegant.

Hope this helps,

[Daniel-E]

I agree with jiggawax's proposed solution. That seems like a clean way to solve the problem.

Please post back if you end up implementing this, because it seems like something others could be interested in. You could also post a snippet of code on the NI Community as an example for other TestStand users.

[Seth_K]

Thanks Jigg and Daniel,

I'm currently implementing this as suggested, and will post again if it works (though it looks like it should be pretty straightforward).

Thanks,
Seth