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Re: Weak LAN Manager hashing permitted

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 7:09 AM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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What's your QPWDLVL set too?

LM passwords are not allowed at level 1 or level 3.
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If IBM i bind non specific issue I suspect the resolution will be to
upgrade our QPWDLVL from 0. We're planning on going to 2 shortly anyway.
Already increased it to 2 on one sandbox lpar.
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Is level 2 no good in resolving this then?


​Correct. To remove the weak LM passwords, you'd want to be at 1 or 3.

At this point nobody should be looking to stay on level 2 or level 0.

Charles​

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