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Triggering e-mails at password change

Novell Cool Solutions: Question & Answer

Posted: 19 May 2005

Q:
I want to create a policy that sends an email to a user when his or her password changes, as a security measure. Where would I put this policy in the channel?

A:
In the Command Transformation of the channel that is setting the password, you need to set an Operation Attribute that basically states that this event is a password change (i.e. passwordChange = 'true'). You also need to capture the person's email address in another Operation Attribute (i.e., email = 'test@test.com').

Then in the opposite channel, in the Command Transformation, you need to do the following:

Criteria:
if XPATH expression, true, @level='success' &
if Operation Attribute, "passwordChange" equals "true"

Action:
Send email to user

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