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Considerations for Mixed-Case Passwords

There are several important things to consider before setting PSWDMIXD. All applications that perform password validation must support mixed-case passwords. If an application does not support mixed-case password validation and PSWDMIXD is on, then the users of the application must type their passwords in upper-case.

The following types of password validations are supported.

• Standard VM logon, but not from the logo screen. The password field on the logo screen can be disabled and a password prompt will be issued.
• CA PAM for Linux for System z

The following is a list of the types of password validation that are not support

• FTP
• Any process that converts the password to upper-case before being passed to CA ACF2 for VM