On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:59:56 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote: >>>> >>> RACF didn't fold the password until recently. >>> >> All the more reason, then, that applications should _never_ have >> folded passwords. It merely prevented users' employing a >> capability present in the underlying system. > >No. Failure to fold password on older RACF systems resulted in logon >failure. Folding by the application was mandatory. > Are you saying, then, that RACF entered the password in its data base as-is, but demanded that it be supplied in upper case to logon? That sounds like terrible design.
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