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Force numbers, special characters in VMS passwords?

 
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Stephen Daddona
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Force numbers, special characters in VMS passwords?

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


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Garry Fruth
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John Gillings
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Re: Force numbers, special characters in VMS passwords?

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.
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Stephen Daddona
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Re: Force numbers, special characters in VMS passwords?

Both replys sent me to topics that answered my question.


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