R/3 Password Length

[Former Member]

Hello,

I wanted to know if is possible to increase the length of password for SAP 620, currently we have as 8 characters. Is it possible to increase the size in 620?

Regards,

Leandro Fonseca

[manohar_kappala2]

Hi,

You need to change the profile parameter

Parameter : login/min_password_lng to the new lenght restriction that you want to put in place

Parameter description :

This parameter determines the minimum length of the logon password.

The password must have at least 3 characters. The administrator can

change the setting so that a longer password needs to be entered.

This change affects all new passwords and whenever an existing

password is changed or reset.

These are additional parameters related to passwords that again be controlled based on ur password policy expectation and authentication model.

login/min_password_diff

login/min_password_digits

login/min_password_letters

login/min_password_specials

login/min_password_lowercase

login/min_password_uppercase

login/disable_password_logon

login/password_charset

login/password_downwards_compatibility

login/password_compliance_to_current_policy

Hope this helps

[Former Member]

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> I wanted to know if is possible to increase the length of password for SAP 620, currently we have as 8 characters. Is it possible to increase the size in 620?

For ABAP password authentication via SAPGUI, the default minimum length is 3, and you can change that. The maximum length is 8, you can only change this from ABAP 7.00 onwards (see SAP Note 862989).

Cheers,

Julius

[Former Member]

Well, from I see then, it is not possible to increase the password lenght more than 8 charactes in 620.

Thank you for the replies.

[Former Member]

One idea: if your company policy forces you to use passwords longer than 8 characters, then you could implement an external authentication mechanism combined with SSO to SAP. This give you more control of the authentication method. You could easily use an LDAP-based identity store w/ passwords longer than 8 characters. SSO and secure communication could be an additional positive side-effect.

Peter