• Subject: Re: password security
  • From: Douglas Handy <dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:31:34 -0500

Mark,

>the first position of a password must be character -

(snip)

>anyone got a clue how this could happen???

To create a numeric password, add a Q prefix when assigning the password.  EG,
use Q121212 and then you can sign on with a password of 121212.

Perhaps in some old releases it was not necessary to add the Q prefix when
assigning the password?  I can't tell you for sure.

Doug
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