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Entering Password Phrases

Password phrases are entered from your keyboard either as a response to a password prompt from CP or CA VM:Secure, on the CP LOGON command line, or on a CA VM:Secure screen. IBM has developed certain conventions for entering this information.

• If the password contains leading or trailing blanks, it must be enclosed in single quotes. Blanks outside of the quotes are ignored, but any within the quotes are considered part of the password.
• If the password starts with a single quote, it must be enclosed in single quotes.
• A password must be enclosed in quotes if it contains any imbedded blanks, and is being entered as part of a CP LOGON command line.
• When enclosing a password in single quotes, any single quotes that are part of the password must be doubled.
• A password can be enclosed in single quotes, even when it is not necessary according to the preceding rules.

In previous CA VM:Secure releases, the LOGONBY Facility allowed a LOGON password prompt response to be a string of the form BY/byuserid/password. This form is no longer supported by CA VM:Secure. Instead, use the BY operand on the CP LOGON command, or specify the single token ‘BY’ as your response, in order to be prompted for the byuserid and password.