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> To: Emerson, Tom
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[in response to my thought: passhist-days=a year]

> Nope. we just turned on security/3000 for the first time 
> today.  Nothing in the history yet! (and I have deleted and 
> re-added my user in the security database while I have been testing.)

I'm not entirely sure, but unless you physically purge and rebuild the database, there may be remnants of previous entries in the file [but don't quote me on this]  HOWEVER...
 
> And yes, (!@#$%^&*) is what I mean by the special characters. 

ok, at least we don't have to worry about tab's and esc's :)

but... the thought occurs -- could you, by sheer chance, be ENDING your password with the special character "&"?  This is MPE's line continuation character, which Security/3000 may be honoring [though it doesn't make sense in this context...]

>  We are basically trying to allow the hp users to use the 
> same format password as the LAN, i.e. strong passwords.  The 
> auditors are kinda driving this, too.

hmmm... if that's the case, and you aren't ending the password with something goofy, then I'd suggest your next call would be to VEsoft's support -- they are [or were when I was there ;) ] pretty good about figuring out things like this. 

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