Password Management

[Joe Salisbury]

Our company's new security policy dictates there must be alpha and numeric characters in a users password. I am running OpenVMS v7.3-1, how can I modify the operating system to enforce alpha plus numeric passwords?

[Hein van den Heuvel]

Joe,

Please try the Search function in the forum first.
It is not the best engine around, but with the 'more options' and selecting 'password' + openvms you will quickly find hints:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=943660
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=866372

Google is also a good tool for example try:

+openvms +password +alphanumeric +site:itrc.hp.com

Cheers,
Hein.

[Robert Gezelter]

Joe,

The capacity for adding site-defined password checking policies is described in the section entitled "Screening New Passwords" in the OpenVMS Guide to System Security, available from HP's OpenVMS www site in both PDF and HTML.

As Hein noted, some sample routines which demonstrate the principles or the mechanism can be found by searching ITRC.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com

[Antoniov.]

Joe,
Welcome to VMS HP forum :-)

Read Hein link, they can help you.
Bob calls for this link
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/os73_index.html
I hope to read you again.

Antonio Vigliotti