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From: Alexander Tereschenko <aleksandr.v.tereschenko@linux.intel.com>
To: openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: BMCWeb changes login password
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2019 16:57:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3160626c-d162-c7bb-1059-f8215dd69717@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c73c4823-7fd1-0762-72d1-da1920897667@linux.ibm.com>

On 04-Sep-19 04:06, Joseph Reynolds wrote:
> 2. The scenario where we may want to ask for the old password is the 
> "password change dialog".  This dialog is accessed when the user signs 
> into the Web App login page and the web app informs the user that 
> their password is expired and must be changed before they can access 
> the BMC  The dialog asks for their new password (twice) ... and does 
> it also ask for the old password? <== That's the question.

FWIW, by the time the BMC is able to determine that user's password is 
expired (and make sure that's indeed that user who's accessing the web 
app), the user must have entered their password, so asking it once again 
sounds like surplus step in this particular scenario.

regards,
Alexander

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-04 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-30  7:18 BMCWeb changes login password Wang, Kuiying
2019-09-04  2:06 ` Joseph Reynolds
2019-09-04 14:57   ` Alexander Tereschenko [this message]
2019-09-04 22:28     ` Joseph Reynolds
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-08-28  8:20 George Liu (刘锡伟)
2019-08-28 19:48 ` Joseph Reynolds
2019-08-29  7:52   ` George Liu

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