Were you hoping for change in 6.3 because you've submitted an enhancement 
request and were led to believe it would happen "soon"? Or were you just 
figuring that "someone else" has probably requested this enhancement already? 

Nick


On Jul 23, 2012, at 5:03 PM, Kevin Kettner wrote:

> Does anyone know if IBM is ever going to expand the character set
> accepted for TSM passwords? I was hoping that would happen in TSM 6.3,
> but apparently it still has the same password rules as it has for as
> long as I can remember:
> 
> http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r3/topic/com.ibm.itsm.client.doc/r_opt_password.html
> 
>> A--Z
>>    Any letter, A through Z, uppercase or lowercase
>> 0--9
>>    Any number, 0 through 9
>> +
>>    Plus
>> .
>>    Period
>> _
>>    Underscore
>> -
>>    Hyphen
>> &
>>    Ampersand
>> 
> 
> The password policy at our university is this:
> 
> * Are at least eight alphanumeric characters long
> * Contain at least three of the following four categories:
>     o upper case characters (e.g., A-Z)
>     o lower case characters (e.g., a-z)
>     o Digits (e.g., 0-9)
>     o Special characters ( e.g., !@#$%^&*()_+|~-=\`{}[]:";'<>?,./)
> 
> TSM doesn't meet that standard and it seems a little silly as that seems
> to be the industry standard for secure passwords.
> 
> And yes, I am aware that special characters do not actually improve
> password security that much, but...
> 
> http://xkcd.com/936/