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Saori Koinuma's profile image
Saori Koinuma posted Wed April 30, 2025 10:55 PM

Hello all, I have a question.
I use the 5250 console when connecting to IBM i from HMC.
What are the password rules for the shared session key that I enter at that time? It seems that an error occurs if the same character is followed, but where is this control handled? There is no specific mention of this in the manual.

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Sylvain Manceau posted Thu May 01, 2025 01:25 AM

Hi,

Some information here about session key: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power10/9105-22B?topic=console-opening-local-5250-session-from-hmc.

Unless needed I keep it simple, like "abc123" πŸ˜‰

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Robert Berendt IBM Champion posted Thu May 01, 2025 06:47 AM

Other than it must contain a digit and cannot have the same character consecutively I don't know of any other restrictions. However I've been using the same shared session keys probably since we got our first HMC.

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Robert Berendt IBM Champion posted Mon May 05, 2025 09:08 AM

In addition to what I answered before, there's also a minimum length.

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Saori Koinuma posted Wed May 07, 2025 04:58 AM

Sylvain Manceau 

Thank you for your comment.

Your quick response is much appreciated.

The documentation does not contain detailed rules for key sessions, but is there anything on the support website?

 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power10/9105-22B?topic=console-opening-local-5250-session-from-hmc.

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Robert Berendt IBM Champion posted Wed May 07, 2025 07:22 AM

In the documentation link you provided I clicked on the thumbs down at the top right.  This prompted me for what they could do to make the site more helpful.  I replied with

Password rules.
In addition to requiring a numeric digit include the rest of the rules.  Ones I know of include:
- Minimum length
- No 2 adjacent characters may be the same

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