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- From: simons/G=Colin/I=CB/S=Sewell/O=H.A.Simons.Ltd/OU=CORP@mhs.attmail.com
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: PASSWORDS & SCHEMES
- Message-ID: <9301090216.AA27086@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 19:06:25 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- Dan Wing writes:
- !You (c sewell) wrote:
- !
- !>| $ SET PASS
- !>| Old password:
- !>| New password: DWINGDWING
- !>| %SYSTEM-F-PWDWEAK, password is too easy to guess; please choose another
- !>| string
- !>|
- !>
- !> i think this is caused by your site specific VMS$PASSWORD_POLICY.
- !> as far as i know VMS doesn't prevent you from using your username
- !> as a password unless you specifically disallow it in VMS$PASSWORD_POLICY.
- !
- !I don't have a password policy on this system. This is allowed on your
- !system? (I'm running VMS V5.5-1).
- !
- !-Dan Wing, dwing@uh01.colorado.edu or wing_d@ucolmcc.bitnet (DGW11)
- ! Systems Administrator, University Hospital, Denver
-
- well, that's bizarre. yes, i just tried it on a VMS V5.5-2 system.
- since we have a password policy active, i SYSGENed LOAD_PWD_POLICY 0
- and tried setting my password to my username. it worked! are
- you posolutely sure you don't have a password policy running?
-
- then again, maybe you have added your username and usernameusername
- to the system password dictionary. but that would give a different
- error message?! hmm .. a mystery.
-
- colin sewell
- h.a.simons ltd.
- vancouver, bc
- "simons/g=colin/s=sewell"@mhs.attmail.com
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