To edit a user password:Use Password Maintenance to set up password parameters such as number of characters, required change days, or maximum length, or to change user passwords.
To edit a user password:
From the System > System Files > User Control menu, select User Maintenance to display the User Maintenance screen.
In the User ID field, enter a user's ID to display the corresponding record.
Use the Passwd hot key to display the Password Maintenance screen.
The User ID field and UserName field displays the user's information from the User Maintenance screen.
In the Enter New Password field, enter a new password in lower case.
Note: Do not use upper case characters for passwords.
At the prompt, re-enter the new password to verify it.
In the Min Password Length field, enter the minimum number of characters required for a password.
In the Min New Characters field, enter the minimum number of new characters required for entering a new password. New characters are letters or symbols that were not in the old password.
In the Min Numeric Characters field, enter the minimum number of numbers to include in the password. This prevents the user from creating passwords solely with letters.
In the Min Alpha Characters field, enter the minimum number of letters or symbols to include in the password. This prevents the user from entering passwords consisting solely of numbers.
In the Suggest Change Every field, enter the number of days the system recognizes the password before it displays a message suggesting that the password is changed. The user can still log onto the system without changing the password.
In the Require Change Every field, enter the number of days the system recognizes the password before it requires that the password is changed. The user can no longer log onto the system without changing the password.
The Last Change field displays the number of days since the password was last changed.
Press Esc to save the changes and exit the screen.
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