On 1/5/2007 12:59 PM, Clark Morris wrote:
> The choice of nationals as the only special characters allowable in
passwords is poor to say the least. The $ code point becomes a pound
sterling sign in the UK and the yen sign in Japan. I suspect similar
changes for the others. It would be far more sensible to allow the
slash, asterisk, hyphen and plus sign since I believe they remain
stable across code pages.
As mentioned before, z/OS password phrases (z/OS R8 and later) support a
wider set of special characters. So, when applications eventually start
supporting password phrases, and administrators enable usage of password
phrases, users with password phrases will have a wider range of special
characters to choose from.
Walt Farrell, CISSP
z/OS Security Design, IBM
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