[Info-vax] Enhanced Password Management

[dgordonatvsi at gmail.com]

On Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 5:28:59 AM UTC-4, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:

> > > If you try to set a password with illegal VMS syntax (e.g. 
> > > 4Fer%_(foi82}), then AUTHORIZE shows a message and won't change it.  Or 
> > > is this something else?
> > 
> > UAF> show bozo
> > 
> > Username: BOZO                             Owner:  Some Clown
> > Account:  TESTUSER                         UIC:    [102,1] ([BOZO])
> > CLI:      DCL                              Tables: DCLTABLES
> > Default:  SYS$SYSDEVICE:[BOZO]
> > LGICMD:
> > Flags:  GenPwd PwdMix
> 
> The flags are essential.  :-|

Well yes.  It's silly to allow setting a mixed-character password if you can't actually use it.