is there any possible to change password length ?

[Former Member]

hai sap guru's,

i am working in a sap ecc5.0 , windows 2003, oracle.

is there any possible to change password length ?

any profile parameter is available .

can u give the solutions.

thaqnks & regards

sathish

[Former Member]

Hi Sathish,

You can change the default minimum length for passwords using the profile parameter login/min_password_lng.

-Pinkle

[Former Member]

hai sap guru's'

i want to set that profile parameter to particular app server.

in rz10 i choose a particular application server and i choose extentend maintenance tab and select change tab.

i include that profile parameter and choose copy tab. i wil show some error .(parameter value is not permitted) login/min_password_lng greater than maximum 8.

do u still want to copy the parameter i choose yes.i wil accept the changes .after that reboot the app server .password length is not changed.

can u tell me procedure ?

thank & regards

sathish

[Former Member]

What version are you on?

[Former Member]

hai sap guru's ,

i am working in ecc5.0 , oracle , windows 2003 server.

thanks & regards

sathish

[Former Member]

It may be because permissible values for this paramerter is between 3 to 8. For NetWeaver 2004s onwards you can give up to 40 characters.

Are you giving more than 8?

-Pinkle

[Former Member]

Hi Satish,

Go to SE11 --> XU400..... There u need to change the Length for the component.......

Regards,

[Former Member]

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> Go to SE11 --> XU400..... There u need to change the Length for the component.......

Never thought of it that way before... however I would think that such a change would make a mess of a lot of application logic and you will end up in SAP note # 7?

Have you done this to your own system(s)?

Did SAP give you an object key for this?

...

Julius

[WolfgangJanzen]

> Go to SE11 --> XU400..... There u need to change the Length for the component.......

Strong word of warning: don't follow that advice.

You'll destroy your ABAP system.

Reason: you cannot simply modify the DDIC structure of such an elementary data structure. It took us quite some effort to implement the feature which is shipped with NetWeaver 7.0 (aka "NW 2004s", basis for ERP 6.0) - because it is also mandatory to modify several kernel components.

I'm sorry, but it is impossible to downport all those changes / enhancements.

(It is an incompatible change; that's why we had to wait for the next major release change: 6.x -> 7.x).

Regards, Wolfgang

Edited by: Wolfgang Janzen on Jan 21, 2008 10:14 AM

[Former Member]

Hello Sathish,

As far as as I know, there are different options:

When you say "possible", do you mean making a change to the maximum password length possible for the user, or do you want to set a minimum length for permitted passwords by the user, or do you want to fix it to a possible length, or a hard permitted length?

Perhaps you are referring to a problem with higher releases communicating with lower releases? If you use the search for "all" date-range on the term "downward" here in this topic forum and "downward AND password" on sdn.sap.com, help.sap.com and service.sap.com then there is more information available.

Here is a thread which I know of, which might help you further:

[Sap Logon password Length|;

Kind regards,

Julius

[Former Member]

hello

the below profile parameter will help your problem

Goto RZ10

"login/max_password_lng" and increase as you required

regards

Ramesh

[Former Member]

Hi satish,

The profile parameter for changing teh password through rz10 is login/min_password_lng

mention the required length.

for any other info for reference, below is the link:

http://sapbasisnotes.blogspot.com/search/label/Security%20Parameters

[WolfgangJanzen]

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> http://sapbasisnotes.blogspot.com/search/label/Security%20Parameters

And here's SAP's official link:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/22/41c43ac23cef2fe10000000a114084/content.htm