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The Question is: I have implemeted a executable that changes a users password. This image has been installed with SYSPRV. The image is recognised by a logical, this logical is defined /system/executive_mode. The image is located outside of the system volume. The image is execute via vfork and exec from another executable which is run in a users environment. The image changes a users password fine. However the password changes ignore the password history. Is there a further step required in building or installing this image. The image revokes the new password if its the same as the current one. The Answer is : Although you don't say how your image is changing the password, presumably your only basis for believing password history might be honored or updated would be if you were using the SYS$SETUAI system service to change the password. But SYS$SETUAI does not interact with the password history. With current versions, the only way to reliably interact with the password history would be by calling the undocumented (except in the listings kit) unsupported entrypoint EXE$LOOKUP_HASH, so of course the Wizard would only recommend that to another Wizard. But take heart. Others have trod this ground before you, and the ability for a user to change their own password from a program has already been requested and hopefully will arrive at a machine near you sometime _after_ V7.2.
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