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- From: coar@Nephi.Enet.DEC.Com (Rodent of Unusual Size)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: How do you set pre-expired passwords with $SETUAI
- Summary: Pre-expired means PWD==-1
- Keywords: VMS, password, $SETUAI
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.182543.28188@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 19:22:26 GMT
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- In article <110510@muvms3.bitnet>, boag@muvms3.bitnet (Bob Boag) writes...
- >It could be that I just missed it somewhere in the manuals, but I can't seem to
- >find any way to mark a password as pre-expired when using the $SETUAI system
- >service.
- >
- >Does anyone know how to do this with VMS V5.4?
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- Simply put, a pre-expired password is one whose binary representation has
- all bits set. So you can do this by giving UAI$_PWD a quadword with both
- longwords containing -1.
-
- >Bob Boag BITNET: boag@marshall
- >Senior Software Systems Analyst Internet: boag@marshall.wvnet.edu
-
- #ken :-)} Jeratol the Chaotic
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