Does anyone know if IBM is ever going to expand the character set accepted for TSM passwords? I was hoping that would happen in TSM 6.3, but apparently it still has the same password rules as it has for as long as I can remember:
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r3/topic/com.ibm.itsm.client.doc/r_opt_password.html
A--Z Any letter, A through Z, uppercase or lowercase 0--9 Any number, 0 through 9 + Plus . Period _ Underscore - Hyphen & Ampersand
The password policy at our university is this: * Are at least eight alphanumeric characters long * Contain at least three of the following four categories: o upper case characters (e.g., A-Z) o lower case characters (e.g., a-z) o Digits (e.g., 0-9) o Special characters ( e.g., !@#$%^&*()_+|~-=\`{}[]:";'<>?,./) TSM doesn't meet that standard and it seems a little silly as that seems to be the industry standard for secure passwords. And yes, I am aware that special characters do not actually improve password security that much, but... http://xkcd.com/936/