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The ability to use Challenge/Response information for password reset information is one that Novell has offered for a long time. Setting default Challenge/Response values for a given user is not easily accomplished normally and can result in a new user getting prompted for data before they are familiar with business policies and the purpose of the prompts. Continue on to see how to set default, customized values for users using Novell Identity Manager (IDM) and some NMAS calls.

Geoff Carman shares some examples of how he uses Jim Willeke's tool: DumpEdirectoryPasswordInformationTool

Recently at a client, I was helping get AppleShare IP connectivity, for use with the AppleShare File Protocol (AFP) working. This article is meant to be the story of how we did it, so that anyone else seeing any of our three issues can see how we fixed them, but also to show the approach we took. For others who see similar but not identical issues, this article can help show how to approach diagnosing the problem.

smamatha explains how to disable login update for NDS and NMAS logins.

DSTRACE is a very powerful tool for troubleshooting Directory service events, but it extends to even more than that, as Geoff Carman explains.