Re: Password start with digit

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I know you've already received a bunch of messages about this, and that 
I'm late to the game, but...

When you create a password that starts with a digit, the IBM i operating 
system automatically inserts a Q in front of it.  So if your password is 
1234, the system stores it as Q1234.  (I don't know why.)

When the password is Q1234, the system would accept a signon where the 
user typed 1234 _or_ Q1234.

The problem in your case is you're going the other direction.  You want 
the system to _send_ the password out to a Windows share.  When you do 
that, should it send 1234? or Q1234?  How would it know which one to 
send?  The answer is:  it doesn't.  So it probably sends Q1234, and 
that's the bad password.

Solution: Use a password that starts with a letter.


On 7/27/2011 8:25 AM, Jeff Crosby wrote:
> All,
>
> Can someone confirm or tell me if you've run into this.  A user changed her
> System i and Windows passwords.  They match, but start with a digit.  She
> can sign on to both Windows and the System i with this password.
>
> *BUT* there is a job she runs once a day that copies 3 PDFs from the IFS to
> a windows share via the QNTC route.  It's worked fine for many months until
> 2 days ago when she changed her password to START with a digit.  The W2008
> Security event viewer says it's the wrong password.  Could it be that
> Netserver (or whatever it is on the System i that supplies the password)
> cannot handle a password starting with a digit?
>
> Thanks.