non expring user id

vputta · Post by **vputta** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 10:14 am

Hi- How to create an non expiring User Id in Datastage? Is there any option in web console?

qt_ky · Post by **qt_ky** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 10:19 am

It depends. Which of the 3 user registry types your DataStage server is configured to use? What version are you running?

vputta · Post by **vputta** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 10:35 am

Thanks for your reply. We are using internal registry and the version is 8.1.1

qt_ky · Post by **qt_ky** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 12:11 pm

In that case, the web console is the place to manage your users. The internal user registry does not support any password policies, such as password length, mix of characters, re-use, expiration, etc. As far as I know, this is still the case even on the current version of 11.3.1. Hopefully one day the internal registry will support security.

It has been 4 years since I used the internal user registry but as I recall, none of the internal user IDs will expire, nor can they be made to expire even if you wanted them to. Anyone may correct me.

Does your user ID expire?

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 3:30 pm

Note, however, that engine credential users are regular operating system users (assuming you're not using PAM). These users ordinarily do have expiring passwords, which can only be changed by superuser changing the password policy for any such user.