Re: Password level change; custom signon screen

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Some guy out west once said "640K is enough" He was wrong too! :-)

Even if it appears that 20 is enough, why limit? If someone wants to use 
123 characters why stop them?  Or is it because the post-it notes under 
the keyboards aren't wide enough for more than 20 characters??? LOL!

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 9/13/2018 1:33 PM, Jerry Draper wrote:
> Why not?  20 char is enough.
>
> J
>
> On 9/13/2018 10:16 AM, DrFranken wrote:
> > I suppose that might be possible but I just cannot resist asking: WHY?
> >
> > The only thing that makes a password secure is length. Not special 
> > characters or requiring a number or a lowercase and an upper case. 
> > None of that, only length. Why restrict it?  I'm truly curious!
> >
> >
> >          - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
> >
> > www.Frankeni.com
> > www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
> > www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.
> >
> > On 9/12/2018 6:32 PM, Jerry Draper wrote:
> > > We moved to password level two (128 byte passwords).
> > >
> > > I seem to remember that we can customize our signon screen and so 
> > > limit password entry to some smaller field size (like 20) and make 
> > > the rest of the field no entry/no display but still keep the 128 
> > > input buffer size to make the signon pgm happy.
> > >
> > > Jerry