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Cannot Set a Secondary Password for OpenVMS Accounts

The OpenVMS remote agent utility ‘vmsautil’ does not enforce the semantics of the OpenVMS PRIMARY/SECONDARY password for user accounts. If you attempt to specify a secondary password when no primary password is set, the operation will fail with the "password is too short" error message.

Workaround

Always reset the primary password when attempting to set a secondary password for the account.