Free EditionIt goes without saying that a password is supposed to remain a secret. Another point to remember is that during an operation like a password reset, passwords tend to be vulnerable. To ensure that password resets happen efficiently and accurately, it is strongly recommended to disable the copy and paste option in the password fields—but that's just one piece of a larger password management strategy, made easy by using ADSelfService Plus. The solution's self-service password reset capability is enhanced not only by the ability to remove the copy and paste ability but also by advanced password policies and password synchronization.
Generally, there are two fields involved while resetting passwords: New password and Confirm new password.
Most organizations tend to use password masking (replacing the characters in a password field input element with bullet points or asterisks) to prevent over-the-shoulder snooping. While this is beneficial, if it's coupled with the ability to copy and paste passwords from one field to another, it could become disastrous.
Imagine an AD user resetting their password. They have a password in mind and type it out in the first field. Since the password is masked, the user is not able to view the spelling mistake they made while typing. Now, if they copy and paste the same password into the Confirm new password field, made possible by the paste event not being restricted, they might not realize that the password they had in mind was not the password they actually created. As a result, they might end up locked out of their account, hampering their productivity.
ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus provides a reliable, easy-to-implement solution for efficient password resets.
ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus provides a reliable, easy-to-implement solution for efficient self-service password management, from blocking copy and paste at the field level to enforcing strong password policies, enabling self-service resets, and synchronizing credentials across systems.
Combined with self-service password reset, password policy enforcement, and password synchronization features, you now have a complete password management workflow—one that keeps accounts secure, copy and paste prevention intact, and users unblocked.
Blocking copy and paste ensures the user genuinely types their password rather than propagating an unseen typo. But what they type still matters. This is where the Password Policy Enforcer in ADSelfService Plus comes in.
Working alongside copy and paste prevention, the Password Policy Enforcer ensures that the password a user types into the reset field meets advanced complexity requirements that are detrimental to credential-based attacks. Requirements include inclusion of specific special characters, no dictionary words, and no breached passwords. These two controls operate at the same time, ensuring the user creates a password that is both accurately entered and genuinely strong.
Even when a reset goes smoothly, users in environments with multiple systems—like AD, cloud apps, VPNs, and databases—often find themselves locked out of one system even after resetting another. This leads to repeated resets, repeated opportunities for typos in masked password fields, and repeated help desk calls.
Password synchronization in ADSelfService Plus addresses this directly. When a user successfully completes a password reset, with copy and paste prevention ensuring the password was entered accurately and the Password Policy Enforcer confirming it meets password policy requirements, password synchronization propagates that new password across all connected systems simultaneously. The user resets once and regains access everywhere, closing the loop on the entire workflow.
ADSelfService Plus' self-service password reset feature allows users to securely reset their own passwords without IT intervention, at any time. Combined with copy and paste prevention and the Password Policy Enforcer, the self-service password reset feature creates an end-to-end experience where users can reset passwords quickly, correctly, and securely on their own, reducing help desk load while keeping standards high.
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