Change user passwords
When you have the appropriate authority, you can change the password for one or more, or all, of the accounts of other users.
If password editing is disabled, you must use the Reset Passwords option to modify passwords because we do not have access to the Change Passwords task.
If password synchronization is enabled, the password is changed for all of the individual accounts automatically.
If password synchronization is not enabled, you can choose which accounts to change the password for.
Password synchronization applies only to individual accounts. Sponsored accounts are not affected by password synchronization. A user can specify different passwords for sponsored accounts.
To change passwords for other users...
- From the navigation tree, select Manage Users.
- On the Select a User page:
- Enter information about the user for whom we are changing passwords in the Search information field, select an attribute from the Search by list, and then click Search.
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In the Users table, click the icon (
) next to the name of the user whose passwords to change, and click Change Passwords.
- On the Change Passwords page:
- Select how we want the password to be generated. If we select to type a new password, type and confirm the password.
- Select the accounts that to change the password for. If password synchronization is enabled and we are changing the password for individual accounts, a list of individual accounts is displayed. This list displays the number of accounts up to the maximum search.limit. These accounts are not selectable. The password change applies to all individual accounts. The individual accounts that are not listed are also changed.
- If to schedule your change request for a later
date and time, click the icon () next to Schedule.
Select Effective Date, and click the calendar
and clock icons to select a date and time.
- Click Submit.
- On the Success page, click Close.
Parent topic: Password management