RE: How to preserve password change date

Paul,

<Dave's Thoughts>

>Don't even think about trying to change audit values like last password
>change date. Just change the password expiry interval on the user's
>profile so that the password will expire on it's appointed date, i.e.
>normal interval minus number of days elapsed since previous change.
>After the password has been changed set it back to *SYSVAL, or whatever
>the usual setting is for this user. But don't try to hide the fact of
>the password change from the user.

To build on Dave's idea here, after you replace the password in the profile,
you could calculate the number of days until the next scheduled password change:

Password expiration interval -  (Today - Password last change date)

Then, whenever a user changes their password use either the PWDVLDPGM system
value or the change user profile exit point (in WRKREGINF) as a trigger to
force the default value for password expiration interval back into their
user profile.


hth,


jte



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