Re: SST password levels

One of the reasons would be to take over the console. In larger environments non-administrative folks perform many tasks.

Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

On Feb 18, 2026, at 3:52 PM, smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Why would an operator have SST access? That concept scares me so wondering why they would. What in SST am I not thinking about?


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Subject: Re: SST password levels

Unless you have multiple users with different levels of authority, such as an operator vs. administrator, no really worry.

Change it and get everyone to change the password for that user profile.

Yes, it should be 2. Most auditors don’t know DST/SST exists, but for those that do, they will require it.


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Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

On Feb 18, 2026, at 3:26 PM, smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Some of the LPARs at my client have SST passwords at level 1 and some
of the LPARs are level 2. I done some digging and know that level 1
is obsolete and they should be using level 2. I’m thinking about
changing them but is there anything that I am missing that causes
concern for this switch? I’m not finding anything so asking the
school of hard knocks group. 😊

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