Help forcing user to change password

[TheBOSMAN]

hi can anyone explain the simplest way to force a user to change there password. I realise I need to add some kind of boolean field to my SQL DB to say if the password is expired but I can't work out exactly how to check this field as it doesn't seem possible to pass the UserName field from my login form to the next page. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks in advance.

[Newsgroup_User]

After you login, your username is available as a session variable.

I don't know what language you're using, but in php:

session_start(); //requires this to access sessions

$_SESSION['MM_Username'] is your username.

HTH,

Jon

"TheBOSMAN" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:eba330$2m3$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> hi can anyone explain the simplest way to force a user to change there
> password. I realise I need to add some kind of boolean field to my SQL DB
> to
> say if the password is expired but I can't work out exactly how to check
> this
> field as it doesn't seem possible to pass the UserName field from my login
> form
> to the next page. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> thanks in advance.
>

[TheBOSMAN · Accepted solution]

Thanks for you help.