Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/7/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!ucbvax!info-vax From: info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Subject: Re: Password checking/changing program for VMS Message-ID: <2231@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 19:27:02 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.2231 Posted: Thu Sep 27 19:27:02 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Sep-84 07:21:09 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 34 From: engvax!KVC@cit-vax If you can wait a bit longer, what you want will apparently be in VMS V4.0. I think that is what you heard discussed at DECUS. The way it appears to work in V4 is as follows: Passwords can be aged (they will expire). The expiration time is setable per user. The system warns the user when expiration is getting close. If he logs in after expiration, he has to change it during that session or the system will not let him on again. Maybe this action is settable, I don't know... There is also a minimum password length, settable per user. SET PASSWORD can suggest computer generated passwords. You can, on a per user basis, make this mandatory. You can set two passwords on an account if you like. Once you get the first password right, the system comes back with the "Password: " prompt again... Maybe useful for accounts like SYSTEM. You can set a system-wide password on a per-terminal basis. Good for protecting network and dial-up terminals. You get no prompt at all till you type this one in. The system just beeps when auto-baud is complete and waits till you type the system-wide password. It then goes through the regular login sequence. Anyway, DEC was pretty free with V4 info at the last DECUS. They had some Field Test systems there too... /Kevin Carosso engvax!kvc @ CIT-VAX.ARPA Hughes Aircraft Co.