Wiki source code of 21.3 Resetting User Passwords

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Admin User 1.1 1 == Resetting User Passwords ==
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3 A user’s password can be reset at any time and will always be necessary if the password has become locked.
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5 1. Navigate to the **Users > Profile** tab.
6 1. Click the **Search** button to open a **user list** sub window that displays user profiles for selection. Note that the search is limited to 100 users (randomly selected if not refined).
7 1*. To **refine your search**, enter a partial value in or select one of the following fields:
8 1**. User Name
9 1**. User ID
10 1**. Organisation Level
11 1**. Active User / Inactive User button
12 1. Click the **Select** button next to the user name in the user list to load the profile. The user profile will load.
13 1. Click **Reset Password** at the top of the page to reset the current user password.
14 Depending on the password rule selected in **Organisation Maintenance: Company Settings** this will either:
15 1*. Generate an eMail to the user containing a **system-generated** password for them to use. PECOS P2P will require them to change this password on first login.
16 1*. or
17 1*. Reset the user password to be the same as their **User ID**.
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19 === Locked Passwords ===
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21 A user profile will become locked after a number of false attempts: three is the default but this may be overridden by the ‘//False attempts allowed’// **Password Rule** setting in the **Company Settings** screen.
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23 A locked password is unlocked by resetting the user password, as described above.
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25 The User List, returned after a user search in the User Profile screen, indicates if a user profile is locked and tracks the number of times each user has been ‘locked out’.
26 [[image:PECOS Admin.WebHome@Fig 20.8 - User search results list showing lockout information.png||height="90%" width="90%"]]
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