Account management

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Each person registered at the personnel office, can ask for its account (username and initial password) after a few days from the registration and activate it by changing the password. The initial assigned password is temporary and expires in 5 days: that means it should be changed as soon as possible, trying to choose a word easy to remember and difficult to guess. Some base rules to choose a good password follows:

  • It shouldn't contain common words;
  • It shouldn't contain names of person;
  • It should contain both letters and numbers;
  • There should be at least 3 alphabetical characters;
  • There should be at least 2 numerical characters;
  • It should be different from the user-name string;
  • It should be at least 8 characters long.

Anyway, the password changing interface does not accept the new password until a series of checks are passed; they consists in checking that:

  • the password is not based on dictionaries;
  • the password is different from the previous one;
  • the minimum number of character constraint is respected.

Once the password is changed, it has a limited period of validity, after which, it must be changed again to be renewed; the expiration data is reported in the "change password" interface.

Change password interface

The expiration of the account is notified by email 15 days, 5 days, 2days and 1 day before the expiration data itself.



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