Password for RFC USer

Former Member · ‎11-02-2009

Hi experts,

We need to set the password for RFC User in small letters.But we are not able to do it ,because of our 'login/*' parameter values.

Is there is any other method to create the password for User ID with small letters(Ex:welcome,hello)?

Thanks in Advance,

Karthika

Former Member · ‎11-02-2009

Hi

Plz check below link where you can find all releated to login/* parametres and their usage

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/22/41c43ac23cef2fe10000000a114084/content.htm

regards

Edited by: praveen on Nov 2, 2009 12:04 PM

Former Member · ‎11-02-2009

> We need to set the password for RFC User in small letters.

What would be the sense in this?

You will be better off with requesting minimum 1 special character and leaving it up to the user to use lower-case or UPPER-CASE characters in their passwords.

This also means that you can create all lower-case alphabet character passwords if you wish, although I don't see the sense in it. All UPPER-CASE would be more likely as some system components on older releases will convert it anyway.

Cheers,

Julius

Former Member · ‎11-04-2009

Hi,

User ID is a system User.

User requesting to create the password in Lower Case only.

Kindly help, whether there is any way to create the password for the ID in lower case only.

Rgrds,

Karthika

Former Member · ‎11-04-2009

Why? It is silly...

sdipanjan · ‎11-04-2009

Login rules are not specific to user types. It is same for all type of users. From NAS 7 there is a change in the password rules. You get the details by a search in the SAP Help portal. So you must need to check the release version of your system too. you may have a look into the following SAP notes and the related notes too:

[Note 750390 - USR02: various problems with password attributes|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/750390]

[Note 624635 - Error messages with password change using RFC function|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/624635]

regards,

Dipanjan

Former Member · ‎11-04-2009

> Login rules are not specific to user types. It is same for all type of users.

Sorry, this is not correct. The password validity rules are a good example which don't apply to SYSTEM and SERVICE type users. Other examples are the idle time rules and compliance to policy rules and the logon ticket rules and remote login via debugging rules and...

> From NAS 7 there is a change in the password rules.

There were major changes in 46B, and 6.10 and 6.40 as well, and Karthika still has not told us which release she is on.

> [Note 750390 - USR02: various problems with password attributes|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/750390]

> [Note 624635 - Error messages with password change using RFC function|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/624635]

I cannot see how these notes are related to this silly requirement of setting a lower-case only password.

I think either Karthika is playing a joke on us, or the person interviewing Karthika is playing a joke on her... These would be the only logical explanations left which I can see for for such a requirement.

Cheers,

Julius

sdipanjan · ‎11-04-2009

> > Login rules are not specific to user types. It is same for all type of users.

> Sorry, this is not correct. The password validity rules are a good example which don't apply to SYSTEM and SERVICE type users. Other examples are the idle time rules and compliance to policy rules and the logon ticket rules and remote login via debugging rules and...

>

I tried to talk about is as per the ongoing discussion topic i.e. Case sensitiveness of Passwords and not other attributes. So from this point of view there is no such separate rule applies during admin imposed password or during a change (the cases where system prompts for changing password).

> > From NAS 7 there is a change in the password rules.

> There were major changes in 46B, and 6.10 and 6.40 as well, and Karthika still has not told us which release she is on.

>

Agreed totally.

> > [Note 750390 - USR02: various problems with password attributes|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/750390]

> > [Note 624635 - Error messages with password change using RFC function|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/624635]

> I cannot see how these notes are related to this silly requirement of setting a lower-case only password.

>

I didn't went through in details fully but seen it contains a considerable error details.... may be of any help to OP.

> I think either Karthika is playing a joke on us, or the person interviewing Karthika is playing a joke on her... These would be the only logical explanations left which I can see for for such a requirement.

>

May be.. but of course need more information and purpose of such strictness for setting such password. Also the FM PASSWORD_FORMAL_CHECK can be used with required customizations but you are the best person to tell this properly.

regards,

Dipanjan

Former Member · ‎11-04-2009

> I tried to talk about is as per the ongoing discussion topic i.e. Case sensitiveness of Passwords and not other attributes.

Ah, okay. Now I see what you meant.

But still, this requirement is silly. In addition to the interview question joke, another possible explanation is that the password is saved in cleartext in a script or table which only supports lower-case --> that is even more silly...

@ Karthika: Can you please give a reason why you would want to do such a thing?

Cheers,

Julius

Former Member · ‎11-05-2009

Hi,

Sorry for the delay....

currently we are on ECC 6.0....

As far as I have concerned, RFC User Id is getting error as 'too many failed logons'....So the Team handling this ID feels it will be simlpe if we provide the simple password to the ID...So they are asking for the lowercase password....

But still we have asked the team to give explanation,why to set the password only in lowercase....

I have a query,Even If I provide the password in lower case(Ex:Acc@01) whether it will converts it into ACC@01(All the letter in uppercase) for communication user by calling some module.(I am not sure on this point).

Regrads,

Karthika

Former Member · ‎11-05-2009

The password does not need to be more or less simple, it needs to be correct!

A more common observation is that a password is ssometimes converted to UPPER-CASE and truncated to 8 characters, but if your password is 'ACC@01' then you do not have this potential problem...

Yes, please let us know why "the Team handling this ID" wants a lower-case password and why they even need to know the password........

Cheers,

Julius

Former Member · ‎11-06-2009

Hi Karthika,

RFC user cannot be used for login from SAP GUI as they are system users and so I am not able to understand the need to change its password to lowercase.

Please follow the link for more info:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/2b/d926254b8a11d1894c0000e8323c4f/frameset.htm

You can find the login parameters in default profile which can be editted both at OS level and using transation RZ10 in SAP.

Good Luck

Rasheed

Former Member · ‎11-09-2009

Hi Experts,

User is asking to set the password for his old version Interface application,We send back to the user that it is not possible to set the password in lowercase.

But kindly consider if there is any other possible method(without changing the parameters in RZ10) to set the password in lowercase.

Thanks all for your reply!

Regards,

Karthika

Former Member · ‎07-02-2010

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