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- From: harvey@indyvax.iupui.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: PASSWORDS & SCHEMES
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.203309.229@indyvax.iupui.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 20:33:09 -0500
- References: <01GT8W0T1GO2006MJF@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>
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- Organization: Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
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- In article <01GT8W0T1GO2006MJF@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>, DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU (Dan Wing) writes:
- > Jon Baker, SYSTEM_JB@UNODE1.NSWC.NAVY.MIL, writes:
- >[Jon wants to implement a site-specific password policy]
- >>[Dan describes the hooks for this in VMS, and then goes on to say...]
- >
- > Using the site-specific policy, you can require that special characters such
- > as @, #, $, %, &, etc., be present in the password string. It also captures
- > the plaintext password -- I hope it goes without saying, but DON'T STORE
- > THIS ANYWHERE!
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- Some of these characters would be rather distasteful to the SET PASSWORD
- command. Only letters, digits, dollar-signs and underscores are allowed.
- --
- James Harvey IUPUI/OIT Technical Support/VMS & Networks
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