The Password Changing utility
("SgaChgPwd")

• provides a useful tool what allows the user to change his password remotely

• Connects to the Authorizer module
• Sends the parameters to change the password for the given username
• Shows messages about the success of changing

Elements of the user interface

• Input
  • Username: the name of the user whose password is being changed
  • Old password: the original password (for new user it is empty)
  • New password 1: the new password
  • New password 2: re-type the new password
• Status
  • shows the result of the changing, what can be:
    • Password is set. - The changing was successful.
    • Did not succeed with password setting at 192.168.0.43 - Setting new password was not successful. For more information, please see the Resulted in field.
• Output
  • Executed at: shows when the last setting attempt was
  • Resulted in: in this field the error code of changing can be seen:
    • (0): OK: the setting is succeed
    • (-1): No such username.: given user is non-existing
    • (-2): Such task for this user is not allowed.: user has not the proper right
    • (-3): Bad password: the typed (original) password is invalid
    • (-4): Password is not yet set.: user has not yet set his password. Please, use Change Password utility
    • (-5): Your actual password is too old. Please change it.: The password is expired.
    • (-6): New password cannot be the same as the actual.: The new password is same as the actual.
    • (-7): New password cannot be any of the last 5.: The new password is among the last 5 passwords
    • (-8): Passwords cannot be changed this often.: The oldest password is not older then INI/[Passwords]/dwPasswordListValiditySec. User cannot change his actual password until that period is not expired
    • (-9): Tried too many bad passwords. Login disabled.: User has mistyped his passwords for 5 times. His password needs to be changed.
    • (-10): Use a more recent version of SgaChgPwd utility! : Use the proper version of the Change Password utility
    • (-77) Password changing is not allowed now; retry later!: In the SgaAutho module the changing of passwords is prohibited ([Connections]/Allow remote password changing option is disabled)
    • (-99) Cannot connect to authentication server.: the password changing utility can not connect to the SgaAutho module, because the SgaAutho is not running or the network connection is got wrong or the IP address set by the SgaChgPwd.ini/[Advanced]/sPollerIPAddress is invalid
    • (-99) Failed to receive authentication answer.: the connection of client is not allowed in the SgaAutho module ([Connections]/Allow client to connect option is disabled)
• Apply
  • change the password for user defined above
• Exit
  • close the conversion application

Requirements for passwords

Passwords should meet the following requirements:

• User name and password are not allowed to be the same.
• Length of the new password should be at least 6 characters.
• Password should hold at least one digit ([0..9]) between the first and the last characters.
• Password should hold at least one small alphabetic character ([a..z]) and one capital ([A..Z]) as well.

Configuration (SgaChgPwd.ini) file settings

Version history

v1.01
• (f) Dialog window can no longer be resized.
• (c) Does not update INI file with default sPollerIPAddress value when that entry is missing.

v1.00
• (n) User name and password are not allowed to be the same.
• (n) Length of the new password should be at least 6 characters.
• (n) Password should hold at least one digit ([0..9]) between the first and the last characters.
• (n) Password should hold at least one small alphabetic character ([a..z]) and one capital ([A..Z]) as well.
• (c) Uses new ApplicationCode (99998) to change password.
• (c) Multi-line box for result string.

v0.93
• Initial release

• No bug is known at present.