RE: Passwords starting with a digit

How to define a password starting with a number.

If the first character of the password is Q, then it is ignored by
OS/400 and the user only has to enter the numeric portion of their
password to gain access.

So, if you change the password to Q1234, a user could sign on by just
entering: 1234.


Kenneth
Kenneth E. Graap


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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bryan Dietz
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 3:42 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Passwords starting with a digit

Just curious, are you using 10 char passwords or have you enabled the
"long" password support?

Bryan

Jeff Crosby said the following on 9/3/2008 4:44 PM:

Learn something new every day.

Two of our users suddenly started having problems viewing their
printouts in iNav. I actually opened a PMR, sent traces, etc, till we

figured it out.

System i passwords cannot start with a digit.

If you change your password to something that starts with a digit, the

System i will put a "Q" in front of it automatically. Sometimes,

anyway.

If you're coming in to the System i from a Windows PC, and your
Windows password starts with a digit, and you have iNav configured to
use the Windows username and password without prompting, the Windows
password will be passed , at least in some cases, WITHOUT putting a Q
in front, causing problems.

Moral: Don't start passwords with a digit.

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