RE: Password Expirations

If the USRPRF value  is set to nomax then the system value should not be
coming into play.  It is possible that you have a job running that is
setting passwords to expire.  I know some of the SECTOOLS jobs will setup
certain USRPRF maintenance functions through the job scheduler.  I don't
remember profile expiration being one of them - the ones I remember are
more to disable and/or delete.  You also have functions like ANZDFTPWD that
can do this.  To minimize the amount of guessing I would check your
security journal and review it for CP (Change Profile) entries.  This will
let you know what job is doing the change....this helps eliminate all of
the guesswork on your part.



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Scott,

The traditional way is to set the PWDEXPITV parameter on the user profile
to *NOMAX.  If this is what you're doing and passwords are still
expiring, then either you need some PTF's or something is happening that
you are not aware of.

Is it possible that people are invalidating their user profiles and
confusing this with password expiration?  Perhaps some person or program
is updating the PWDEXP parameter on user profiles to *YES.

Can you be more specific in what you've done and seen?

Turning on security auditing would give you a definite audit trail if
you're finding no indications in the history log.

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> On Behalf Of Scott Clark
> Subject: Password Expirations
>
> How can I set my AS400 NOT to expire passwords?   User profiles are set
> for
> passwords not to expire but they still do!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott Clark



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