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Generating passwords for users during migration (R.5.0.1)

This release note discusses changes introduced in R5.0.1 in the way that the migration tools generate random passwords for users; it replaces information in "Overview of Migrating Users to Notes and Domino" in Moving to Notes and Domino Release 5.

The R5.0.1 migration tools now provide a new option for overwriting users' imported password with randomly generated passwords. In addition, the R5 option "Generate random passwords" has been changed to "Generate random passwords for users with no passwords."

For user registration to complete successfully, the password specified for the user must meet the minimum password quality requirements set in the registration preferences. If a user's password does not conform to the requirements, you must modify it before you can register the user.

By default, most of the Domino migration tools automatically set the Notes password to a user's existing password. The migration tools for Windows NT, Novell GroupWise, and Netscape Messaging Server do not import a user's existing password.

The migration tools provide the following options to automatically create passwords for migrating users who either do not have passwords, or for whom you prefer not to import existing passwords:

Users for whom you create new Notes passwords can change their password using the Notes client. The password they create must conform to the quality scale set at registration.

Generating random passwords for users with no passwords
For users who have no existing password to import, or whose passwords cannot be imported (Windows NT users, for example), the migration tools provide an option to generate a random password conforming to the specified password quality scale. The default setting for this option differs for each of the migration tools. When using this option, passwords are only generated for users if the password field is empty; generated passwords do not overwrite passwords imported from the legacy system.

This option and the option "Overwrite existing with random passwords" are mutually exclusive. If you select one of the options and then attempt to select the other, an error message appears.

Note The current version of the Domino migration tool for cc:Mail does not support the option "Generate random passwords." To successfully migrate a user's cc:Mail mail box, you must provide a cc:Mail password for the user. Use the cc:Mail administration tool to create passwords for users before migration

Overwriting existing passwords with random passwords
Select this option to generate new random passwords for all migrating users, regardless of whether they already have a password available for import from the legacy directory. The migration tool generates passwords that conform to the password quality scale specified in the current registration preferences. If a migrating user already has a password imported from the legacy system, the new password overwrites it.