HP 9000 Series - Selecting a New Password

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Selecting a New Password
If you have already b ooted and used y
our system, you should already have set
dierent passwords for your user account and for root .
However, you will also wanttochange your password from time to time as a
matter of go o d securit
y practice. The following gives the general requirements
of setting passwords.
A password must meet four criteria to b e v
alid:
Contains at least six c
haracters.
At least twocharacters must b e alphab etic.
At least one character must be a number (0-9) or a sp ecial character (/, ?, !,
or other punctuation mark).
Dier from your previous password by at least three characters.
Your password is case-sensitive, so the password ?Secret is dierent from the
password ?secret .Your password can also b e as long as you want, but only
the rst eightcharacters are checked.
If you are adding many users to your system, see System Administration Tasks
for the details of controlling access to your system.
If you have not yet set your password, you can do so using SAM or a shell
command line.
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