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  • Subject: Re: Changing System wide System Values
  • From: DAsmussen@xxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 16:30:39 EDT

Rob,

In a message dated 98-08-05 16:01:17 EDT, you write:

> Here's a system value for you:
>  QPWDPOSDIF
>  
>  We have a problem where a user would change his password from CARL01 to 
> CARL02 to CARL03... every time the password expired, he just changed the 
> number.  It got to be kind of a joke in the department.  The above system 
> value fixed that problem.  Of course now he couldn't change his password
from 
> CARL to DOLLY because there remains an L in the fourth position.  Slightly 
> frustrating but his actions inspired us into it.  And if this cheeses you
off 
> that much then you need to cut down on caffeine and spend some time with a 
> VERY close friend.

Yes, but unless you activated the disallowance of repeating characters, Carl
is probably now using AAAAAAAA, BBBBBBBB, CCCCCCCC -- personally, I prefer the
CARL01, 02...

My .02,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"Always take a job that is too big for you." -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
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