RE: password system values

Dale,

Help text (F1) is your friend. When looking at the system values, it will
tell you at what point they take effect.


Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power




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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of dale janus
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 11:25 AM
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Subject: Re: password system values

Thanks for the ideas.

There's a lot to be said for making all the changes at once.

But I'm happy to know I can increase the length and it won't take effect
until the next password change. Obviously not for expiration dates.

I also did not realize this:

Most of the QPWD* system values are deprecated in favor of system
value QPWDRULES. As part of QPWDRULES see *DGTMINn. If you want to
require at least one digit use *DGTMIN1. See also: *REQANY3,
*SPCCHRMINn If you're stuck on some expired version of the OS then use
this as another excuse to upgrade. Failing that you can roll your own

with QPWDVLDPGM.


I will look into QPWDRULES. We are v7r1, so we don't have any excuses.

Also, just hearing that there are things that sync windows and ibm passwords
like tivoli identity manager is encouraging. Probably too expensive for our
little shop, but good to know such things are out there.


---Dale

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