Allowing a user to change their password

You can allow a user to change their own password. However, you may want to restrict this to teachers or advanced users.

To allow or prevent a user changing their password

  1. From the left-hand pane, expand Picture of the Users icon Users and choose All Users.

  2. From the right-hand pane, right-click the user and from the menu, choose Properties.

  3. Choose the Rights tab.

  4. In the Password section:

  5. To allow a user to change their password, tick the 'Allow user to change...' box.

  6. To prevent a user from changing their password, clear the 'Allow user to change...' box.

  1. Click OK.

Notes

  • You can use the same process to manage multiple users in the same folder. First, select all of the users that you want to manage. When the tick is grey, some of the selected users can change their own password, and some cannot.

  • User properties are also available by selecting the user and choosing Picture of the Properties button in the toolbar, or by double-clicking the user in the right-hand pane.

  • You can also set this user property on a template.

Related Topics

Managing user properties: overview
Force user to change their password at next logon