Passwords

[jlparsons]

Hi guys,

First can I say a big thank you to Rejetto for a superb piece of work.

Now my problem. Is it possible to set a password at the group level so that each user has their own username but uses a group password?

If that is not possible is there a way of resetting all of the user passwords to the same password.

What I am trying to achieve is for each user to have thier own login (so that I can assign folder permissions) but use a common password.
I know that I can manually assign each password to be the same but I would want to change the password on a regular basis so some form of automation would help.

I fully understand that if a user knew another users username that they would be able to login as that user. However each user would not know the other usernames and also would not know that a common password was being used.

I hope that makes sense.

I am using HFS 2.3 beta.

Thanks

James

[Metaltailz]

I don't think there is any way of doing it from within HFS but you might be able to set up a macro to edit the file which contains the users and passwords (I don't remember which file that is or if it is even possible).

[jlparsons]

Thanks for the reply Metaltailz,

I believe that the login info is held in the hfs.ini file and I was hoping that I may be able script something to do a find and replace on it. The login information however appears to be encryted with the username and password as a single string.

As for using a macro, does anyone have any idea how I would go about this?
 

[rejetto]

you can work directly on the hfs.ini file, yes, but that would require a restart.
the login information is encoded by base64. you probably need to be a programmer to get this goal.

a little script may be easier.
{.set account|frank|password=theNewOne.}
will do for frank.

it's not trivial, but feasible to loop over {.get|accounts.}
and when {.member of| ThatGroup |user=ThatUser.}
than you set the password with the command reported above.

it clearly requires some programming knowledge

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