Wolfgang Schäfer wrote:
Hello group,
I tried to run the ´sample´ IBM password copy utility (PWDCOPY on the
IBM RACF website) on z/OS 1.7 and
z/OS 1.8. The tool runs without errors, but the copied password could
not be used. Has anyone recently used this tool? Or has someone used an
alternative to copy passwords between RACF databases or users.
In my case, userids are going to be renamed. Since this will be done
using ´big bang´ it´s not a good idea to give everyone a new password,
transporting the old password would be a great help.
I´ld really like to use something ´proven´ before I start to twiddle
around with RACROUTE EXTRACT requests :-)
Thanks for helping!
Regards
Wolfgang Schaefer
And yes, I tried to subscribe (and search RACF-L), but the list server
does not reply to me :-( ... so I hope I´ll find some help here.
Not going to work. I can't remember if what Rick stated is correct
(user-id used as seed to encrypt the password) or if the "password" is
used to encrypt the user-id. Either way what is stored in the RACF data
base is something that is based on the user-id, the supplied password,
and encryption method. So if you copy the encrypted password for the
user-id jdoe to the user-id johndoe, johndoe will not be able to logon
because "johndoe" was not used as part of the encryption process for the
password, jdoe was.
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