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<h1 class="topictitle1">Plan password level changes</h1>
<div><p>Operations with other systems may fail or users may not be able
to sign on to the system if you havent planned for the password level change
adequately.</p>
<p>Changing password levels should be planned carefully. Prior to changing
the QPWDLVL system value, make sure you have saved your security data using
the SAVSECDTA or SAVSYS command. If you have a current backup, you will be
able to reset the passwords for all users profiles if you need to return
to a lower password level.</p>
<p>Products that you use on the system and on clients with which the system
interfaces, may have problems when the password level (QPWDLVL) system value
is set to 2 or 3. Any product or client that sends passwords to the system
in an encrypted form, rather than in the clear text a user enters on a signon
screen, must be upgraded to work with the new password encryption rules for
QPWDLVL 2 or 3. Sending the encrypted password is known as password substitution.</p>
<p>Password substitution is used to prevent a password from being captured
during transmission over a network. Password substitutions generated by older
clients that do not support the new algorithm for QPWDLVL 2 or 3, even if
the specific characters are correct, will not be accepted. This also applies
to any iSeries™ to iSeries peer
access which utilizes the encrypted values to authenticate from one system
to another.</p>
<p>The problem is compounded by the fact that some affected products, such
as Java™ Toolbox,
are provided as middle-ware. A third party product that incorporates a prior
version of one of these products will not work correctly until rebuilt using
an updated version of the middle-ware. Given this and other scenarios, it
is easy to see why careful planning is necessary before changing the QPWDLVL
system value.</p>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzamvqpwdlvlone.htm">Considerations for changing QPWDLVL from 0 to 1</a></strong><br />
Keep these items in mind as you consider changing your password level.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzamvqpwdlvltwo.htm">Considerations for changing QPWDLVL from 0 or 1 to 2</a></strong><br />
Password level 2 introduces the use of case sensitive passwords up to 128 characters in length, also called passphrases, and provides the maximum ability to revert back to QPWDLVL 0 or 1.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzamvqpwdlvlthree.htm">Considerations for changing QPWDLVL from 2 to 3</a></strong><br />
Keep these items in mind as you consider changing your password level.</li>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rzamvpwdlvl.htm" title="This system value allows you to set a specific password environment where all user profile passwords can have the same length specification.">Password level</a></div>
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