Maintaining Logonids with the ACF Command › Using ACF CHANGE to Change the PASSWORD Field

Using ACF CHANGE to Change the PASSWORD Field

Use the ACF CHANGE subcommand to change the PASSWORD field of a logonid record. Changing the PASSWORD field in this way is useful if you forget your password. A user with the SECURITY privilege must issue the CHANGE subcommand through one of the following formats:

• To change your own password or, if you have the SECURITY privilege, change another user's password, enter:

  CHANGE logonid PASSWORD
  

• If you have the SECURITY privilege and need to change the password for one or more users at one time, use:

  CHANGE LIKE(lidmask) PASSWORD
  

  or

  CHANGE UID(uidmask) PASSWORD.
  

After you use one of the above methods, the following message appears asking you to enter your own password:

ACFpgm260R ENTER YOUR CURRENT CA‑ACF2 PASSWORD

Then the following message appears and you must enter a new password for the logonids specified in the CHANGE subcommand:

ACFpgm256R ENTER NEW CA‑ACF2 PASSWORD

CA ACF2 for VM requests that you enter the new password again for verification. You have successfully changed the passwords if the logonid listings appear on the screen after responding to the prompts. With either of these formats, you must literally enter the word PASSWORD in the CHANGE subcommand. The subsequent CA ACF2 for VM prompting ensures that CA ACF2 for VM does not display the new password on the terminal.

Additional Considerations

• If you remove the PROMPT=YES operand from the PASSWORD field of the @CFDE macro, changing a password does not differ from changing any other character field. For more information on the @CFDE macro of the ACFFDR, see the Installation Guide.
• When you log onto a group ID, you can change your own password, but not the group ID password unless CA ACF2 for VM privileges allow the group ID to change other passwords. When you log onto a group ID,
  CA ACF2 for VM treats your own logonid as the user's logonid.
• Password phrases are part of the PWPHRASE user profile record. Changes to password phrases with the ACF command are covered in the chapter "USER Profile Records" in the PWPHRASE Profile Record section.