On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 12:33:01 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: > >Nice. Couple of password stories: > ... And more: > In the day, there were no password rules, and TSO accepted logon in a single transaction, "user/password", all type in a displayable field. An intelligent but rebellious co-worker used "/" as his password to minimize hand motion: "user//".
Another co-worker, new to VM, managed to set an 8-character password, embedding an "@". But CP had TERM LINEDIT ON prior to logon. He couldn't protect the '@' with '''" because ABCD"@XYZ wouldn't fit in an 8-character field. Bad habit of IBM: Users usually can't enter generic DSNs or SYMBOLICRELATE of more than 44 characters even though they might be resolvable to a valid 44 characters. "*" simply shouldn't count against the 44-character limit because it might resolve to ''. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
