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RPW—Restricted Password List

Valid on z/OS nad z/VM.

Use the RPW control option to allow the site to modify and list the contents of the restricted password list. This allows the site to prevent the use of obvious passwords such as company names, titles, month and names. Mixed case passwords are temporarily transformed to uppercase before being checked against the RPW prefixes.

The supplied RPW is loaded initially at startup. It can be modified anytime afterward via the RPW control options. It is not rebuilt other than from REINIT of CA Top Secret.

All entry methods are accepted.

This control option has the following format:

RPW(LIST)|(RESET)|(ADD,password,...)|(REMOVE,password,..)
LIST

Displays contents of restricted password list. This operand is not protected since it does not alter security.

RESET

Removes all password prefixes currently in the restricted password list, including the product defaults. Once the RPW (RESET) option clears all user and default password restrictions, the 33 default prefixes can only be recovered by manual RPW(ADD,…) or automatically by a REINIT of CA Top Secret.

ADD

Adds one or more password prefixes to the restricted password list.

password

One‑ to seven‑character password prefix.

REMOVE

Removes one or more password prefixes from restricted password list.