NET/MASTER Management Services (MS) Operator's Guide

Valid Passwords
User ID Management Services (UMS)
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For example, the following passwords are invalid because they contain fewer than
three characters (using the default value of SYSPARMS PWMIN):
1, 12, AP, @#
The password must not have consecutive characters that:
Are identical to the user’s user ID
Match any part of the user ID
Contain the user ID
For example, if a user ID is OP1SYD, the following passwords are invalid:
OP1SYD, P1S, SYD, AOP1SYDZ, 12OP1SYD
If the user’s user name does not have embedded spaces, the password must not
have consecutive characters that:
Are identical to the user’s user name
Match any part of the user name
Contain the user name
For example, if a user name is John, the following passwords are invalid:
JOHN, JOH, OHN, AJOHNZ, JOHN12
If the user’s user name has embedded spaces, the password is checked against the
user name in three ways.
First, the embedded spaces are removed and the password is checked against the
concatenated user name. The password must not have consecutive characters that:
Are identical to the user’s concatenated user name
Match any part of the concatenated user name
Contain the concatenated user name
For example, if a user name is Tom Day, the following passwords (when checked
against TomDay) are invalid:
TOMDAY, TOMD, MDAY, ATOMDAYZ, TOMDAY12
Second, the embedded spaces are retained and the password is checked against
each individual name in the user name. (A name is a first, middle, or last name.
Also, a name is more than one character in length; otherwise, it is an initial.) The
password must not have consecutive characters that:
Are identical to a name
Contain a name
For example, if a user name is John Edward Sam Grey, the following
passwords (when checked in turn against John, Edward, Sam, and Grey) are
invalid:
JOHN, AJOHNZ, EDWARD, 12EDWARD, SAM, 0SAM0, GREY, GREYAZ