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Subject: Re: Password checking/changing program for VMS
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Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 19:27:02 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 27 19:27:02 1984
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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.