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Looking for research on automated, temporary passwords for new users

Hey all, have any of you had successful experiences with automated, temporary passwords being generated during the user sign up process?

I didn't read anything about this in  Luke Wroblewski's work and am looking for some insight. Our demographic is composed of many people in their 50's and 60's. I am looking to increase the ease of the signup process.

how to treat passwords when creating a new user

Hi all,

I'm working on a project where one user creates the accounts for several other
users (typically one manager to 4 to 20 operators). It's an equipment (not
office environment, not web) and the operators may have only a numeric keypad.

We've seen 3 options so far:

1. When the manager creates an account, he also creates a password for that
user. It's up to the manager/operator relationship to make that the real
password or to require the operator to change it (the system won't care about it).

2.

"Wrong password"

Hi fab folks -

Straw poll of the day:
What are your favorite (and least favorite) error messages/error
handling scenarios for our oh-so-beloved use case, "user enters
incorrect password"?

Yours curiously,
- Billie

Forgotten Passwords

I've seen sites using both the "e-mail temporary password" and
"answer security question(s)" methods for resetting passwords. Does
anyone have any data on usability (or security) issues with either
one, or other (better) methods for dealing with forgotten password
problems?

Thanks,

Chris