Special chararacters in password policy

[Former Member]

Hi,

on our Abap Systems we use the following password policy:

at least 8 chars

at least 1 special char like "_-%&*".

To create a new Abap user via IDM I have to setup the password policy within the IDM as well. I've read the online docu and tried to configure "Regex" string as described here:(http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html#sum). Unfortunately it does not work.

Here's the error message while trying to create the ID in the Abap system:

"Exception from Add operation:com.sap.idm.ic.ToPassException: The password must contain at least 1 special characters The entered password is not downward compatible (see long text) Please enter an initial password"

Has anyone got an idea on how to setup this ?

Rgrds,

Juergen

[Former Member]

Hi Jurgen,

I'm assuming that this a new user in IdM and you are trying to assign them their initial password. If it is an existing user, you should then pass their existing (compatible) password to the mx_password attribute.

Defining special characters and other password can be done through a simple script. Define a character variable along with variables for any other requirements and then concatenate them to ensure that at least one character is included in each password.

var char = !@#$%^&*()

var num = 1234567890

var letter = abcdefghijklmnop

par = char + num + letter

...

Regards,

Nathan