Can you control which users have password controls?

ISSUE:
Can you control which users have password controls?

SOLUTION:
Not as delivered. Password controls affect all users. An enhancement request has been created for this issue and is tracked by incident 1111500000. This solution will be updated when this enhancement is completed.

WORKAROUND:
As a workaround all you can do is customize the Password Controls so they will not affect a user like 'PS'. Some customers use PS to start the app server. Starting the app server is a two-tier process so as long as that is all they are doing they will not be affected by password controls (password controls like Max logon attempts and expire only work in three tier and PIA). The problem is that even if this user cannot logon via 3-tier there is a chance their account could get locked out by possible misuse of someone attempting to logon as that user id.

To have a user's password never expire but still be controlled by the max logon attempts you can do the following:

update PSOPRDEFN set LASTPSWDCHANGE = '2010-12-31' where OPRID = 'what ever User ID you want'

You would make the LASTPSWDCHANGE in PSOPRDEFN a future date and then the password would never get this error. This is good if you create default users to run daily processes.

Remember that any change through the back-end will require you to recycle the app server cache.

To exclude certain users from the signon PeopleCode password controls completely here is what you have to do:

1) In Application Designer open the record called FUNCLIB_PWDCNTL and view the peoplecode.

2) Open the FieldChange PeopleCode and add the following right under the line called:

Function PASSWORD_CONTROLS ( );

rem this is a customization to exclude users from password controls;

If %SignonUserId = "VP1" Or
%SignonUserID = "GUEST" Then

Exit;

End-If;

3) Save & test the new code

Remember that any changes to delivered code is considered a customization and you will want to track these changes incase of updates or fixes.

REPORT ID:
1111500000 - Enhancement request has been reported to development

The above solution has been copied from PeopleSoft customer connection.