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Wildcards in AUTHORIZE?

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The Question is:

 
I would like to know if there is an easy way to
wildcard a flag change in authorize for all users?
We are going to roll our VAX computers ahead to
do Y2K testing and when I do that all passwords
will be expired for the day of testing.  I would
like to be able to change the pwdlifetime for
all users at a time instead of one account at a
time.  I can let them all be expired and make
people change passwords on that day but when I
restore the disk drives after testing the old
password will be the one they need.  I am hoping
to avoid some confusion if possible.  I searched
through your index and hope I didn't miss some
thing that was similiar to this.  The documentation
looks like you have to put in an individual
username for the modify command in authorize.
 
Thanks Much
Karen Guy
 

The Answer is :

 
  The OpenVMS Wizard STRONGLY recommends using the specified Y2K readiness
  testing procedures, which include offline testing and performing a full
  BACKUP prior to performing any Y2K readiness testing procedures and then
  restoring after the testing.
 
  If you must perform testing of the production system, replace or change
  all passwords or mark all usernames (save for SYSTEM and the core testing
  usernames) as DISUSER in the copy of the SYSUAF used on the test system.
 
  AUTHORIZE commands such as:
 
    MODIFY */PWDLIFETIME="120-12:34:56"/NOPWDEXPIRED
 
  may be of interest here.
 
 

  

     

     
answer written or last revised on ( 4-MAY-1999 )
     
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