I was my understanding that RACF ids with passphrases all still had passwords, perhaps unknown to anyone and that it wasn't possible to not have passwords.
I could of course be wrong > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Alan Altmark > Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2024 7:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Passphases > > On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 23:27:38 +0200, Radoslaw Skorupka > <[email protected]> wrote: > >BTW: a user can have *both* passphrase and password. The second one can > >be understood as emergency one. > > I beg to disagree. Having the password undoes any enhanced security you get > from having a phrase. > > The only reason a user should have a password is if they are using a portal > that > does not have support for phrases, or you migrating to phrases. But at some > point, you need to upgrade the portal and/or remove the PASSWORD. > > Alan Altmark > IBM z/VM Development > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
