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Automated Password Reset in Clarify Classic Client: an experiment

May 22, 2012 I’ve shown in the past how we do Password Resets in our web applications.   I was playing around with something today, so I’m just throwing it out here.   Big caveat: I’m not a native Windows forms programmer. Not in the least. What I’m doing is probably stupid, unsupported, and dangerous to your health. But what the hell. No guts, no glory.   Onward. But what about the Clarify Classic Client?   How can we do automated password resets in the Clarify Client? In the baseline app, you can’t.   When your login fails in the Clarify Client, you’re presented with this:   OK, great. It failed. And I forgot my password. So what now? Can we make it suck less?   Well, what if we gave the user some more info?   For example, on the login form, give…

Enforce Password Standards

July 10, 2007 Customization that allows enforcing of password standards, such as:The password must be 6-8 characters in lengthThe password must contain numbers & alphabetic charactersThe password cannot start or end with a numericThe password cannot contain the login nameThe password cannot match any of the previous 13 passwordsetc.http://www.dovetailsoftware.com/download/connections2001/password.zipgschwartz replied to this with: Gary,Thank you for this post. In reading through the code, it appears that the users' previous passwords will be stored in cleartext in the custom database fields you added to table_user. Am I reading this correctly?I'd like to avoid this, perhaps by using stored procedures or global code subroutines with decryption/encryption algorithms. They would not have to be the same ones clarify uses. Then we can store the encrypted old passwords and compare against the decrypted query results.Any suggestions on where to find algorithms like this? Or alternative implementation suggestions?Thanks…