Administration Guide › Special Comment Reference › *PW= [Password Change Date]

*PW= [Password Change Date]

Lists the date when a user’s password was most recently changed.

In previous releases, this record also contained password history data. Any password history data will be removed from this record whenever a user’s password is next changed. Password history data may have been encrypted. The history data will be moved to the *PWnn= records described below.

Add this comment, in the following format, to a directory entry for which you need to know old passwords and the most recent password change date, or to a skeleton file so that it is incorporated in directory entries for which you must know this information:

*PW=

CA VM:Director updates the date stored in this comment in a user directory entry each time a logon password for this user ID is changed.

Note: Do not enter values for this comment.

The information CA VM:Director maintains in this comment looks like this:

*PW= yy/mm/dd

yy/mm/dd

The date on which the user ID of this directory entry last changed his password.