NET/MASTER Management Services (MS) System Management Guide

Using UMS to Manage User Access
Managing User Access and Privileges
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Using UMS to Manage
User Access
With the UMS management privileges, you can control many aspects of a user’s ability
to access NonStop NET/MASTER MS.
Initial Password Field You specify an initial password for a user by entering a value in the Initial Password
field on the UMS : User Details panel. An initial password is the password used by a
first-time user to log on to NonStop NET/MASTER MS. The initial password (and all
subsequent passwords) must conform to the following rules:
The password must contain only the following characters:
Alphabetic characters: A through Z and a through z
Numeric characters: 0 through 9
Other characters: # $ @
The password must be from the value specified by the SYSPARMS PWMIN
command through eight characters in length.
The default value of SYSPARMS PWMIN is 3. (Section 5, “Customizing the
Operations Environment,” discusses how to use the SYSPARMS PWMIN
command to configure the minimum required password length.) If you enter a
password longer than eight characters, it is truncated to the first eight characters.
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