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From: marra@samuel.enet.dec.com (Dave Marra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: QUEST for VAX users *********
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.173226.12667@e2big.mko.dec.com>
Date: 19 Mar 91 17:32:26 GMT
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I appologize for my rather rude comments this morning.    I spent yesterday
talking with someone about the mispercetptions people have of  operating
systems
other than  the one they learned from to start.  

Anyway, I'm sorry for the outburst.

As the other replies indicated, you can't get to your old passwords. 
What you can do
is to modify your UAF entry such that you do not have to change your
password
at all.  This way you can set it to anything you want and VMS won't
expire
the password on you.  Do this with the command:

$ set def sys$system:
$ run authorize
UAF> modify <username> /PWDLIFETIME=0/PASSWORD=("foo","bar")
UAF> exit
$

this will provide the user with a password that will not have to be
changed, and, will
also give the user two passwords, the first will be 'foo' the second
will be 'bar'...

hope this help.
						.dave.