G06.30 Software Installation and Upgrade Guide

Overview of Installing G06.30
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Password Enhancements and OSS ACL Support
optional Safeguard installation procedures, see the T9750AER softdoc and the
Safeguard Administrator's Manual, Section 10.
Fallback Considerations
There are considerations for possible fallback to a pre-G06.25 Safeguard T9750 SPR.
Compatibility with previous Safeguard SPRs is maintained. However, if the T9750AER
or later SPR is installed and the DISKFILE-PATTERN feature is used, you must
evaluate if equivalent nonpattern protection records are required after fallback. See the
T9750AER or later softdoc for details.
Password Enhancements and OSS ACL Support
The G07 version of Safeguard and G06 version of Standard Security improve the
cryptology of the user passwords in the NonStop server environments.
New Attribute Defaults
The default values of certain attributes have been changed in the G07 version of
Safeguard and G06 version of Standard Security (starting in the G06.29 RVU) in order
to increase the “out of box” password security. Customers who do not wish to adopt the
new defaults can follow the normal migration steps for Safeguard. Customers using
Standard Security alone are impacted by this change.
Attributes specific to Safeguard configuration are:
Attributes specific to the PASSWORD utility of Standard Security are:
All attributes are applied as each user changes their password.
Password Encryption
If PASSWORD-ALGORITHM is DES or PASSWORD-ENCRYPT is OFF, the password
(DES-encrypted or in clear text, respectively) is written to both the existing L/USERID
and the new L/USERAX files. This approach allows for direct fallback to earlier
versions of Safeguard and Standard Security.
Attribute
Previous
Default Value
New
Default Value
PASSWORD-ENCRYPT OFF ON
PASSWORD-MINIMUM-LENGTH 0 6
Attribute
Previous
Default Value
New
Default Value
ENCRYPTPASSWORD OFF ON
MINPASSWORDLEN 0 6
PROMPTPASSWORD OFF BLIND