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Change the Restricted Password List

If you have CONSOLE authority, use the RPW control option to temporarily add or remove one or more entries from the list. You can have up to 511entries in the list. The list remains changed until CA Top Secret is recycled.

To display the current contents of the list, enter the command:

TSS MODIFY(RPW(LIST))

To change the contents of the restricted password list, enter the command:

TSS MODIFY(RPW(ADD|REMOVE,word1,word2,...wordn) 

Examples: restricted password list

This example adds the prefixes PRES and CIA to the list. Users currently using PRES or CIA as their password or the prefix of their password can still use it to sign on:

TSS MODIFY(RPW(ADD,PRES,CIA))

This example deletes PRES from the list:

TSS MODIFY(RPW(REMOVE,PRES))