Force numbers, special characters in VMS passwords?

[Stephen Daddona]

It's my understanding that VMS doesn't/can't force passwords to have numbers and/or special characters. Am I right?


Thanks!

[Garry Fruth · Accepted solution]

You may want to look at ITRC thread: http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=950685

[John Gillings]

Craig,

> Am I right?

No. You can implement whatever insane password policy your local spooks can dream up. Just a matter of writing the code to implement it. There's an example password policy routine at

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=943660

which can be adapted to force passwords to contain numbers and/or special characters.

[Stephen Daddona]

Both replys sent me to topics that answered my question.


Thanks!