RE: Users unable to access IFS after password change

Emily,
I had this problem at a past shop, and IBM actually told us to
disable, then enable the profile and all would be well. It always worked,
but definitely a minor pain.

Larry Ketzes | Senior iSeries System Administrator | AIG / ALICO - American
Life Insurance Company
One ALICO Plaza, 600 N. King Street, AMIS | Wilmington, DE 19801 | *:
302.594.2146 | 7: 302.830.4524| *: larry.ketzes@xxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Emily Smith
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 4:28 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Users unable to access IFS after password change

List,

This is a problem we have been encountering for a few years now, and I
thought I'd throw it out for discussion/feedback. A user will change his/her
password on the iseries. Then when he/she attempts to access a drive mapped
to the IFS they receive one of two errors: 'Access Denied' or 'Resource Not
Available'. This happens only sporadically. Happened to me today, but I know
I haven't had the issue in at least 5 previous password changes. Rebooting
doesn't help. Neither does disconnecting and remapping the drive. The fix
we've found is to change the affected user's user profile, and then to
change it back. It doesn't seem to matter what attribute we change either.
We're on V5R4 now, but this happened on V5r3 also.

Any ideas?


Emily Smith
Programmer/Analyst
Bank Data Services
(618)659-4550
CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message is private, confidential property
of the sender, and the materials may be privileged communications intended
solely for the receipt, use, benefit, and information of the intended
recipient indicated above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are
hereby notified that any review, disclosure, distribution, copying, or
taking of any other action in reference to the contents of this message is
strictly prohibited, and may result in legal liability on your part. If you
have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately
and delete this message from your system. We believe that this email and
any attachments are free of any virus or other defect that might affect any
computer system that it is received and opened in, however, it is the
responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and the
sender accepts no responsibility for any loss or damage.