RE: Grace Period
Brian Johnson ( (no email) )
Mon, 3 Aug 1998 15:06:29 -0500
> -----Original Message-----
> From: emerald-request@iea-software.com
> [mailto:emerald-request@iea-software.com]On Behalf Of Alan D. Criado
> Sent: Monday, August 03, 1998 2:58 PM
> To: emerald@iea-software.com
> Subject: Grace Period
>
>
>
> Hello Dale.
>
> I'm using Emerald 2.2.38.
>
> I have most of my accounts expiring on the 1st of the month. I wanted to
> build into emerald a seven day grace period for the customers to
> be able to
> get their checks in on time. For example:
>
> User account due to expire: 9/1/98
> Emerald actually stops authenticating seven days later: 9/8/98
>
> I went into Client Configuration (with the Emerald admin, ver. 2.2.31) and
> put "7" in DEFAULT EXTEND. My understanding is that it will extend ALL
> accounts 7 days past their expiration date. Everyone's accounts who were
> due to expire on the 1st of this month was stopped by Emerald, instead of
> extending them the 7 days.
This will work on all new accounts, but you will need to run a script to
change the extend field on the current accounts if you want to apply it to
them as well.
>
> I guess I must have misunderstood how this works.
>
> I would appreciate your help.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Alan D. Criado
>
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