Change your password using the IBM Telephone Directory V5.2 application

Find information on how to change your password in the application.

In the IBM® Telephone Directory V5.2 application, you can change your password if the application administrator allows users to update their own directory entries.

To change your password, perform the following steps:

  1. Access the IBM Telephone Directory application by entering the following URL in your Web browser: 
    http://your.server.name:port/ibm-bizApps/welcome/home.do

    where your.server.name is the name of the server where IBM Telephone Directory V5.2 is installed and port is the port number that was specified during installation.

  2. Click IBM Telephone Directory.
  3. Click Search.
  4. Enter criteria to search for (such as your last name), and click Search.
  5. In your entry, click Update Entry. Enter your user ID and password if necessary.
  6. Click Change Password.
  7. Change the password, and click Submit.
Parent topic: Use IBM Telephone Directory V5.2

Setting passwords

When you (the user) set the password for an entry that does not currently have a password, you only have to provide the new password and the confirm password. You do not need to provide the current password (because there isn't one). The IBM Telephone Directory V5.2 application uses your credentials (the user ID and password you specify to log in) to set the entry's new password. If you are not authorized to set the password field for the entry, this operation fails.

Changing passwords

When you (the user) change the password for an entry that already has a password, you must provide the current password, the new password, and the confirm password. The IBM Telephone Directory V5.2 application uses the credentials you supply (the current password) to change the entry's password. You use the entry's authority to change the password, not your own (unless you are changing your own password). If you do not provide the current password, this operation fails.

Note: Authority settings are defined and controlled by directory server Access Control Lists (ACLs), not by the IBM Telephone Directory V5.2 application.