A traditional password in VM is a single word of up to eight uppercase characters. If a traditional password is entered in lowercase, it is translated by the system to uppercase before matching it to the stored version.
A password phrase is a mixed-case string of up to 200 characters. It can contain any character, including binary data from X’00’ to X’FF’. Although CA VM:Secure places no limits on the character set of a password phrase, limitations are imposed by terminal input devices. To enter a password phrase from a keyboard, it must contain only characters available on that keyboard. Binary data can still be placed into password phrases, but only by using programming interfaces.
Because CA VM:Secure must simultaneously support both password styles, it uses the length as the differentiating characteristic. A string of eight characters or less is treated as a traditional password and must obey the syntax of that type. It must not contain blanks, and is translated to uppercase before verifying it. Strings longer than eight characters are treated as password phrases, with all the flexibility of that format. The term password in this chapter refers to either traditional passwords or password phrases.
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