Re: Password Setup

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

WA-A-A-A-A-Y back in the days of the IBM 1132 computer system, 
FORTRAN variable names (and program names) were limited to 5 
characters.  And 4 characters you could use, in addition to letters 
and numerals, were %$#@.  Well, I know that the AS.... er, iSer... 
er, Syst... er...   I know that we can still use $#@ in variable 
names.  I'll have to try _ (which seems to have replaced %) and see 
if it's usable.

$#@ can be used as the -first- character in a variable, just like a letter.

I'm not sure why they are restricted from use in passwords...

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



At 2:04 PM -0400 9/8/08, Mark Allen wrote (in part):

> Currently the QPWDLMTCHR value is set to #$_@ and they want be to allow any
> characters.
>
> Is there any system/technical reason they should not be allowed on the 400
> or was this just a "choice" made by whoever set it to this value eons ago.