G06.32 Software Installation and Upgrade Guide

G06.32 Installation and Fallback Alerts
G06.32 Software Installation and Upgrade Guide—546068-002
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Safeguard Password Enhancements (G06.31)
In addition, the following attributes are introduced:
Migration Considerations
Users migrating to a version of Safeguard and Standard Security that supports longer
passwords should be aware that the default setting for the new
PASSWORD-COMPATIBILITY-MODE attribute is ON, meaning that new passwords
are limited to 8 bytes. To enable the longer password feature,
PASSWORD-COMPATIBILITY-MODE must be set to OFF, and the existing
PASSWORD-MAXIMUM-LENGTH attribute must be set to a value greater than 8.
For more information on these and other attribute changes, see the
Safeguard
Administrator’s Manual .
There are no migration considerations specific to the quality password feature.
However, you can use the mitigation procedure described under Migration
Considerations on page 2-18 to handle any unexpected failures that might occur during
migration. This procedure preserves the user or password database that is necessary
to restore the original system user or alias database.
Fallback Considerations
From the G06.31 and later RVUs, you can fall back to the G06.29 or G06.30 RVU.
However, longer passwords and embedded spaces in passwords are not supported in
pre-G06.31 RVUs. Any user with a password that exceeds 8 characters or contains
embedded spaces will be unable to login after fallback.
Considerations for falling back to G06.30 are:
Attribute Description
PASSWORD-UPPERCASE-
REQUIRED
When set to ON, passwords must contain at least one
uppercase character.
PASSWORD-LOWERCASE-
REQUIRED
When set to ON, passwords must contain at least one
lowercase character.
PASSWORD-NUMERIC-
REQUIRED
When set to ON, passwords must contain at least one
numeric character.
PASSWORD-SPECIALCHAR-
REQUIRED
When set to ON, passwords must contain at least one
special character (any nonalphanumeric character except
for commas, double quotes, or semicolons).
Attribute Description
PASSWORD-MIN-QUALITY-
REQUIRED
Specifies the minimum number of quality criteria that must
be met when a password is set or changed. Valid values
are 0 through 4.
PASSWORD-SPACES-
ALLOWED
When set to ON, passwords may optionally contain
embedded spaces.