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QPWDLMTCHR allows you to force omission of certain characters from
passwords (typically vowels) but I cannot see a similar function in
the new rules.

And for a very good reason as it is a silly facility to have. Every time you
remove symbols from key, the key-space gets smaller, thus weakening
the encryption. I guess IBM finally wizened up.


On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was looking through the changes for security in VRM610 specifically
the new system values for password rules. Essentially the old QPWD*
system values directly related to password rules are replaced
(supported but obviously deprecated) by a new single system value
QPWDRULES that takes multiple values. All-in-all a good idea but I
noticed the following anomaly:

There appears to be no direct replacement for the QPWDLMTCHR system
value.

QPWDLMTCHR allows you to force omission of certain characters from
passwords (typically vowels) but I cannot see a similar function in
the new rules.

Is this simply a documentation oversight?
Is QPWDLMTCHR still effective even when using the new method?
Have I simply missed something?

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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