RE: Strange one

Mike,

Most of these values are not necessarily the result of tremendous
thought from someone at the installation.  Most of these values (all of
the password related values) are the result of running the CFGSYSSEC
command, which supplies values which IBM has determined are most
appropriate for an installation which would like tight security.

Not out of the ordinary at all, just going 'by the book IBM', which is
probably out of the ordinary for this list.

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

On Behalf Of Condon, Mike
 Subject: Strange one

I just had a guy who is an admin on an AS400 transplanted from another
location come to me because noone could log onto his machine, and a few
other odd things. The power down button did not even work, so we did a
simulated power failure to restart (qsecofr could not sign on at the
console).
Once we did get signed on (qsecofr had to change password immediately),
several system values were at odd settings:
QLMTDEVSSN set to 1
QLMTSECOFR set to 1
QMAXSGNACN set to 3
QPWDLMTAJC set to 1
QPWDLMTCHR set to AEIOU@#$
QPWDLMTREP set to 1 or 2?
QPWDPOSDIF set to 1
QPWDRQDDGT set to 1
QPWDRQDDIF set to 1 (!)
I checked & the system date was ok.
Now, is it just me, or does this look just a little out of the ordinary?