Re: AS400 user password

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

> I know that Pentasafe has a program that will test all user 
> profiles for trivial passwords.  Seems to be pretty thorough.
> 
> We had a problem with people just adding a digit to the end 
> and had to activate some system values to prevent this.  

PentaSafe's program detects that too

> 
> Folks, I suggest you look at all of the QPWD* system values and 
> read the help on each one.  Some of the 40 column descriptions 
> just don't define them well.  For the problem we had with digits 
> we used QPWDPOSDIF.  To kill just about any dictionary word you 
> could store all the vowels in QPWDLMTCHR. The list goes on... 

PentaSafe's program also checks for this.

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All in all, it was a useful product.




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