Password Command Registry entry

Specifies which password authentication script is used when supervisor authorisation is requested by the Vitalware system.

Certain actions performed by staff, such as cancelling a certificate order, require supervisor authorisation in order to proceed: an on-screen pop-up will display requesting that a supervisor enters their username and password. A script is run by the system to verify the password. By default (and in the absence of this Registry entry), the vwverifypasswd script is run. This entry allows an alternate script to be run.

Note: Two scripts are installed with Vitalware: vwverifypasswd (which is used by default) and vwverifypasswdssh.

Usage

This Registry entry is assigned at the system level only:

KeySystem
Key 1System
Key 2Setting
Key 3

Password Command

Valuescript
SystemSettingPassword Commandscript

where:

script

is the name of the script to run.

Example

This entry specifies that the vwverifypasswdssh script (an ssh version of vwverifypasswd) is run rather than the default script vwverifypasswd:

KeySetting
Key 1 System
Key 2 Setting
Key 3 Password Command
Value vwverifypasswdssh

Note: In order to run vwverifypasswd the perl module Net::Telnet must be installed on the server and the telnet port (23) must not be blocked. To run vwverifypasswdssh the perl module Net::SSH::Perl must be installed on the server and the ssh port (22) must not be blocked.