RE: Anomaly or Working as Designed

This magic Q... profile/password was around on the earliest Sys/38.

I often bring it out on Tips & Techniques nights at our user group.

Doug Hart

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Brian,

This little oddity has been around since at least V2.  I believe it was
added so
that the AS/400 could support numeric user profiles, or at least user
profiles
that started with numeric characters. I always assumed that it was for
interoperability with other systems that supported leading numerics in
the user
profile/ID field.

jte


bdietz@3x.com wrote:

> I'm sure everybody have seen this before:
> You put in a number in front of your user profile e.g. 3XCORP
> and this message pops up ---- CPF1120 - User Q3XCORP does not exist
> I'm ok with this so far,  I got a couple of minutes on my hands and decide
> to explore.
>
> I create a user profile Q3XCORP with password of Q3XCORP.  Ok but I hate
> putting a "Q" in front of a
> users profile.  Next I go to my signon screen and for the user-id I put
> 3XCORP and the password is 3XCORP.
> Expected  Results????  I get signed on.  OK now I'm really confused, but
> wait it gets better.
> Next I try Q3XCORP and pswd of 3XCORP.  That works too, as does 3XCORP and
> Q3XCORP
>
> Is this working as designed?  I have tried this on v3r2, v3r7 thru v4r2.  I
> know it has something to do with
> the number first, but in this age of security awareness I think this is not
> good.
>
> Questions/comments???
>
> Bryan Dietz
> 3X Corp.
> Columbus OH
>
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