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		<title>Jane.doe at 07:50, 13 December 2019</title>
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The period of time during which passwords are stored in the password history list is defined by the SYS$PASSWORD_HISTORY_LIFETIME [[Logical Name|logical]] and by default is 365 days (the maximum is 28000 days). It should not be set to less than PWDLIFETIME in the [[User record|user record]]. The default size of the password history list is 60 words; it can be controlled with the SYS$PASSWORD_HISTORY_LIMIT [[Logical Name|logical]] (the maximum is 2000 words). Note that these values should be consistent across all nodes in the cluster.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The period of time during which passwords are stored in the password history list is defined by the SYS$PASSWORD_HISTORY_LIFETIME [[Logical Name|logical]] and by default is 365 days (the maximum is 28000 days). It should not be set to less than PWDLIFETIME in the [[User record|user record]]. The default size of the password history list is 60 words; it can be controlled with the SYS$PASSWORD_HISTORY_LIMIT [[Logical Name|logical]] (the maximum is 2000 words). Note that these values should be consistent across all nodes in the cluster.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The password history list is located in [[SYS$SYSTEM]]. You can move the list off the system disk by using the [[Logical Name|logical name]] VMS$PASSWORD_HISTORY. It should be defined in the system table in executive mode in [[SYLOGICALS.COM]].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The password history list is located in [[SYS$SYSTEM]]&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;:VMS$PASSWORD_HISTORY.DATA&lt;/ins&gt;. You can move the list off the system disk by using the [[Logical Name|logical name]] VMS$PASSWORD_HISTORY. It should be defined in the system table in executive mode in [[SYLOGICALS.COM]].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Jane.doe: Created page with &quot;&#039;&#039;&#039;Password History&#039;&#039;&#039; is a list of passwords maintained by OpenVMS for each user record. All new passwords set by the user with SET PASSWORD are checked a...&quot;</title>
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		<updated>2019-12-13T07:48:57Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;quot;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Password History&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; is a list of passwords maintained by OpenVMS for each &lt;a href=&quot;/User_record&quot; title=&quot;User record&quot;&gt;user record&lt;/a&gt;. All new passwords set by the user with &lt;a href=&quot;/SET_PASSWORD&quot; title=&quot;SET PASSWORD&quot;&gt;SET PASSWORD&lt;/a&gt; are checked a...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Password History&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; is a list of passwords maintained by OpenVMS for each [[User record|user record]]. All new passwords set by the user with [[SET PASSWORD]] are checked against the user&amp;#039;s password history unless the DISPWDHIS [[Account flags|flag]] is set in the [[User record|user record]].&lt;br /&gt;
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The period of time during which passwords are stored in the password history list is defined by the SYS$PASSWORD_HISTORY_LIFETIME [[Logical Name|logical]] and by default is 365 days (the maximum is 28000 days). It should not be set to less than PWDLIFETIME in the [[User record|user record]]. The default size of the password history list is 60 words; it can be controlled with the SYS$PASSWORD_HISTORY_LIMIT [[Logical Name|logical]] (the maximum is 2000 words). Note that these values should be consistent across all nodes in the cluster.&lt;br /&gt;
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The password history list is located in [[SYS$SYSTEM]]. You can move the list off the system disk by using the [[Logical Name|logical name]] VMS$PASSWORD_HISTORY. It should be defined in the system table in executive mode in [[SYLOGICALS.COM]].&lt;br /&gt;
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* {{Template:Sec}}&lt;br /&gt;
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