Re: Password start with digit

Yesterday this user changed her password to NOT start with a digit and last
night all was well with this job.

So the password starting with a digit was indeed the issue, as if we didn't
already determine that. Just wanted to add closure.


Thanks to everyone who responded.



On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Scott Klement
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

I know you've already received a bunch of messages about this, and that
I'm late to the game, but...

When you create a password that starts with a digit, the IBM i operating
system automatically inserts a Q in front of it. So if your password is
1234, the system stores it as Q1234. (I don't know why.)

When the password is Q1234, the system would accept a signon where the
user typed 1234 _or_ Q1234.

The problem in your case is you're going the other direction. You want
the system to _send_ the password out to a Windows share. When you do
that, should it send 1234? or Q1234? How would it know which one to
send? The answer is: it doesn't. So it probably sends Q1234, and
that's the bad password.

Solution: Use a password that starts with a letter.


On 7/27/2011 8:25 AM, Jeff Crosby wrote:

All,

Can someone confirm or tell me if you've run into this. A user changed

her

System i and Windows passwords. They match, but start with a digit. She
can sign on to both Windows and the System i with this password.

*BUT* there is a job she runs once a day that copies 3 PDFs from the IFS

to

a windows share via the QNTC route. It's worked fine for many months

until

2 days ago when she changed her password to START with a digit. The

W2008

Security event viewer says it's the wrong password. Could it be that
Netserver (or whatever it is on the System i that supplies the password)
cannot handle a password starting with a digit?

Thanks.

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