Not only
reasonable, but even recommended in the admin manual.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
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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> On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 16:43:07 -0500 Alan Altmark said:
> >On
Monday, 11/07/2005 at 12:32 PST, "Schuh, Richard"
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> >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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