Change Login Password

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Change Login Password

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Changing your password regularly helps prevent other users from gaining unauthorized access to AccountMate Enterprise using your login credentials. Make a note of your password and keep it in a safe place for retrieval in case you forget it.

 

 

Perform the following to change your login password:

 

1.Access the Change Password function in the System Bar. In the pop-up window that appears, you must enter the information necessary to make your change of login password successful.

 

2.The User Name field is read-only and displays the user's name who is currently logged in to AccountMate Enterprise.

 

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Note: If you want to change your login password but you are not the user currently logged in the  workstation, you must either ask the current user to log out and log in yourself or move to a workstation at which you are currently logged in.

 

 

3.In the Current Password field, you must enter correctly your current login password.

 

4.Enter in the New Password field the new login password that you will use the next time you log into AccountMate Enterprise.

 

5.In the Confirm new password field, enter exactly the same value you entered in the New Password field. Be sure that you enter the correct letter case of the characters comprising your new login password.

 

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Note: For security purposes, the system uses special characters (i.e., =) in lieu of the actual password you entered in the Current password, New password, and Confirm new password fields.

 

 

6.Click the OK button to save your entries; otherwise, click the Cancel button to discard your changes.

 

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Note: If you entered an incorrect password in the Current Password field or you entered different values in the New Password and Confirm new password fields, AccountMate Enterprise will display an error and will not allow you to save your entries in this window.

 

 

Immediately after you have changed your login password, click the Switch User function which you can find in the System Bar to display the AccountMate Enterprise Login window. Enter your new login password to verify that it works.

 

 

 

See Also

Switch User

Log In to AccountMate

 

 

 

 

 

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