Change Password
Information
- Each user can change his or her password at any time.
- If a user has forgotten his or her password, it can be reset by a user that has access rights to the Users module (usually the administrator).
Change password directly
- Via Extras Change password
- Enter the old and the new password and confirm the new password in the dialog box that opens. An empty password field cannot be confirmed.
- Confirm the following Your password has been changed successfully message with OK.
- From the next login on, you have to use the new password.
Change password via reset
- If a user has forgotten his/her password, he/she informs the administrator who then resets the forgotten password and generates a new one.
- The user receives the temporary password via e-mail to the e-mail address stored in the system or by other means.
- During the next login you have to enter your temporary password and immediately change it in the dialog box that opens.
Notes
From DB 39.5.7
- If the new password is sent via e-mail, you have to make sure that
- the e-mail address of the recipient is stored in the Persons module.
- the specified e-mail address is correct. e-mail addresses are not validated in PLANTA project, so if you enter a wrong address, the respective recipient will not receive the e-mail containing the password but the password is changed regardless.
- the correct IP address of the smtp server is entered for the smtp_server_address parameter in the Alpha (120) field in the Global Settings module.
- NEW If no or no valid IP address is entered, the following message is displayed when trying to reset the password: E-mail cannot be sent. Reset password anyway? If the query is confirmed, the new password is created but cannot be sent automatically via e-mail.
From DB 39.5.4
If the new password is sent via e-mail, you have to make sure that
- the e-mail address of the recipient is stored in the Persons module.
- the specified e-mail address is correct. NEW E-mail addresses are not validated in PLANTA project, so if you enter a wrong address, the respective recipient will not receive the e-mail containing the password but the password is changed regardless.
- the correct IP address of the smtp server is entered for the smtp_server_address parameter in the Alpha (120) field in the Global Settings module.
Up to DB 39.5.4
If the new password is sent via e-mail, you have to make sure that
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