MicroStrategy 7 Administrator Guide

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Passwords
CHAPTER 48
Change a user’s password
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Select the user whose password you wish to change.
From the File menu, choose Edit. The User Editor opens.
Type the new password in the Password box.
Type it again in the Confirm password box. This guards against spelling
mistakes in the password.
Click OK to save your changes.
Configure password expiration criteria
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In the User Manager, locate and select the user whose password expiration
criteria you wish to configure.
From the File menu, choose Edit. The User Editor opens.
If they are selected, clear the User cannot use standard authentication to
logon and the User cannot change password check boxes.
You configure the expiration criteria in the Password expiration box.
Select Never if you the user’s password to never expire. Select Date/# of days to
have the user’s password expire on a certain day.
Click OK to save your changes.
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Password expiration criteria is applied only if the user is allowed to use standard
authentication and change his password.
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