2. Create a list of Secret Questions where User can select their favorite and setup their
Secret answers. The secret questions can be setup by navigating through ‘Home >
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PeopleTools > Security > Password Configuration > Forgotten Password Hint’
3. The User should have security setup for their passwords to be emailed. Hence, In the
Permission list which is available for all the users can be setup with ‘Allow Password to
be Emailed’ flag to ‘Y.
4. Users should needs to setup their Secret Question and Answer by navigating through
‘Home > My System Profile > Change or set up forgotten password help’
The Users Secret Question and Answer information will be stored at PSUSERATTR
table
5. Create a new Permission list and provide full access to the following objects in the
Permission list
a. Pages Tab:
Menu : MAINTAIN_SECURITY
Component : EMAIL_PSWD
Pages : All Pages
b. Component Interface Tab:
Component Interface : USERMAINT_SELF
c. Web Libraries Tab:
Web Libraries : WEBLIB_PORTAL and
WEBLIB_PT_NAV (Full
access to all iScripts)
6. Create a new Role and assign the newly created Permission list to the role
7. Create a new User Id (Will act as Common User to auto login for resetting password)
and assign the newly created role to the User. The User Type should be ‘None’. Make
sure the new User able to login to the PeopleSoft system with out any issue.
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8. Navigate to ‘Home > PeopleTools > Portal > Structure & Content’ and drill down on
the ‘Root -> Tools – Hidden -> Forgot my password’ Content reference and check on
the ‘No Template’ to ‘Y’ on the ‘General’ tab.
9. Create a new Web profile by navigating through ‘Home > PeopleTools > Web Profile
> Web Profile Configuration’ to allow Public access and with the newly created Common
User Id and Password
10. Create a new Site Id for your PeopleSoft system in the Web server (Contact your
PeopleSoft System Administrator to create a new Site Id for the Web server).
11. For the new Site Id, we need to set the parameter to use the newly created Web
ProfileId.The parameter can be set when creating a new Site Id setup process, Else
after successful creation of Site Id, the Web Profile Id can set up in the Web Server
‘configuration.properties’ file.
12. Open the ‘Signin.html’ in the notepad and add the link for ‘Forgot password?’ The
link should point to the ‘MAINTAIN_SECURITY.EMAIL_PSWD.GBL’ component with
the newly created site id. (The Web server needs to be bounced to reflect the changes
in the login page). For E.g.
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http://<Web Server>/psc/<site name>/<Portal
Name>/<Node Name>/c/
MAINTAIN_SECURITY.EMAIL_PSWD.GBL
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