How does your company handle user pwd changes?

I would like to know how other companies handle user password changes with Sun One Portal Server 6.0. Do you have an option in the portal server window itself or do you direct users to a page on the directory server?

Just a little note
When you login into the portal server, you actually login to the Identity server (DSAME), and have a DSAME session, and when you logout from either amconsole or portal window you logout from the DSAME. The portal server uses Identity server for authentication purpose (if you see the login page you will notice the login action url is "/amserver/login" and the logout url is "/amserver/logout").
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b) how tight your processes are? how much paperwork, workflow, tickets, requests and incidents you have to go through to change a role?
c) who is a friend of GRC here, raise your hand
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