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Subject: RE: change system value to allow special characters in password
From: Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 20:38:14 +0000
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Let me combine some of the posts.
QPWDLVL, even at it's most basic level 0, allows a few special characters. See the documentation others have suggested for a list of those special characters.
We have went to QPWDLVL 3. I found 1 and 2 to be a waste of time and "trying" 2 just required additional downtime to get to 3. I suppose if you care little or nothing for auditing and are running obsolete versions of Windows 1 or 2 may have some value but other than that I see no use for them.

QPWDRULES deprecates many of the previous QPWD* family of system values. I forget which release of OS it became available on.

Rob Berendt

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