Avoiding any of the TERMINAL defined characters (CHARDEL, LINEDEL, LINEND, TABCHAR, or
ESCAPE) operands would seem reasonable to avoid.
Kurt Acker
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Which is good. x15 and x05 might be bad characters to use. I would not be inclined to use any that would not print or display as a readable character; and would not allow any that have special meaning, such as @,# and friends.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
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> From: VM/ESA and z/VM Discussions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Behalf Of A. Harry Williams
> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 3:45 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Passwords
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>
> On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 16:43:07 -0500 Alan Altmark said:
> >On Monday, 11/07/2005 at 12:32 PST, "Schuh, Richard"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >wrote:
> >> What characters are allowed in passwords? Where is it
> documented? I see
> >that
> >> HCPTBL, as documented, has specifications for the userid,
> but see no
> >such
> >> documentation for the content of passwords.
> >
> >There is no restriction on password content as far as CP is
> concerned,
> >though an ESM may choose to implement other rules.
>
> Yes there is. As others have pointed out, x40 is not allowed
> in the middle
> of the 8 character password. Neither is x81. CP does do
> some translating
> before working with the password. There are all sorts of
> characters not
> allowed.
>
> >
> >Alan Altmark
> /ahw
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