PWDCOLON parameter
Support for colons in passwords
Summary
- Default value
- 0
- Parameter type
- System
- Where set
- On User 0's parameter line
- Related products
- All
- Introduced
- Model 204 V7.6 (requires zap 76Z291)
Note: This parameter is available only in version 7.6. It is superseded by additional password functionality in version 7.7.
Description
Before the implementation of PWDCOLON, a colon used in a login password always indicated that the user was changing their password, with the colon being the delimiter between the old and new:
LOGON USERID old password:new password
Now, when PWDCOLON=1 is set in CCAIN, a user can use a colon as part of their login password. But they cannot change
their password using the colon delimiter; passwords can only be changed by the system manager using the [[LOGCTL command:
Modifying user ID entries in the password table|LOGCTL]] C command.
$Sir_Login
However, when using $Sir_Login to login, for example when using an APSY-full-screen interface invoked via the CCAIN parameter VTLAPSY parameter, the password can be changed in the $Sir_Login function call, where there is no requirement for an old password/new password delimiter.