topic Re: Custom password for guest accounts? in Network Access Control

Custom password for guest accounts?

reggie_obos — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 18:51:27 GMT

We will be having a company event and there was a request to have a single guest account to be used by the participants of the event. It was also requested that the password be customized to something that can be easily remembered.

Question is - is there any way for an admin/sponsor to customize a password for a guest account?

I cannot allow guests to change their password after login as there are multiple users who will have access to this account!

Thanks in advance folks!

Re: Custom password for guest accounts?

ajc — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 21:06:17 GMT

On 2.2 version the answer is NO. The only thing you can do is temporarily modify the following so the guest accounts are easy to recall. Just make username + password characters small length

Re: Custom password for guest accounts?

jj27 — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 04:20:31 GMT

An option not available to sponsors, but available to admins is to go to Administration->Identities and create a user account with the desired username and password, then map it to the Guest Type of your choosing. Make sure your Guest authentication sequence contains "Internal Users" as well as the default of "Guest Users"

Re: Custom password for guest accounts?

reggie_obos — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 08:07:37 GMT

Thank you very much! This actually did the trick. Appreciate the response!

Re: Custom password for guest accounts?

reggie_obos — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 08:09:35 GMT

Hi Abraham,

Thanks for the reply! Actually another community member suggested to create a local identity where you can set a password. I tested it in our environment and it actually worked 🙂

Thanks again!