Re: Password level change; custom signon screen

[Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We are limiting passwords to 20 characters.

J

System value . . . . . :   QPWDLMTCHR
Description  . . . . . :   Limit characters in password


On 9/13/2018 10:07 AM, Justin Taylor wrote:
> What if a user changes their password outside of 5250 and sets a password too long for your 5250 signon screen?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Draper [mailto:midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 5:33 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Password level change; custom signon screen
>
> We moved to password level two (128 byte passwords).
>
> I seem to remember that we can customize our signon screen and so limit password entry to some smaller field size (like 20) and make the rest of the field no entry/no display but still keep the 128 input buffer size to make the signon pgm happy.
>
> Jerry
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