Safeguard Reference Manual (G06.24+, H06.03+ )

User Security Commands
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ALTER USER Command
PASSWORD [password]
changes a user’s logon password.
password
is a string of one to 64 characters. It can contain any alphanumeric
characters except blanks, commas, semicolons, and the ASCII null
character. The case of the letters is preserved. Lowercase letters remain
lowercase, and uppercase remain uppercase.
If omitted, the value for password is set to null. In this case, a password is
not required for the user to log on to the system.
The password is subject to the restrictions imposed by the configuration
options described in Section 16, Safeguard Subsystem Commands.
USER-EXPIRES [ date [ , time] ]
changes the user-expiration date to the specified date and time. (Both are local
civil time.)
After USER-EXPIRES suspends a user’s ability to log on to the system,
changing the USER-EXPIRES attribute to some future date restores that ability
to log on.
If you omit both date and time, the user-expiration attribute value is set to
null, and the user’s ability to log on to the system never expires.
If omitted, time is set to 0:00 (midnight).
The form of date [, time] is:
{ month-name day } year [,hour:min]
{ day month-name }
month-name
is the first three letters of the month name: JAN, FEB, MAR, and so on,
using uppercase or lowercase letters.
day
is a 1-digit or 2-digit integer from 1 through 31, specifying the day of the
month.
year
is a 4-digit integer specifying the year.
hour
is an integer from 0 through 23, specifying the hour.
WARNING. Only the first eight characters of the password will be considered.