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Re: We are trying Set up DB2 user passwords to never expire and we need a Technical Justification Document.

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Hi Krishna ,

 

If your DB2 system sis the backend DB  the  backend of an SAP system  . The users generally that are set to non expirable are sap<sid> , sap<sid>db ( if java ), sapadm etc .

 

Normally an SAP system is installed with the confidence that it is highly available , ie it is available for end user to access 24/7 .

 

The SAP connects to the DB using the sap<sid> user and incase this user gets expired  all the db operations will be hanging back eventually failing . (The user password will expire any time )This does not help in assuring that the system is HA/ near HA  . [A time critical job might fail , an important update might fail]

 

 

Hence we set the passsword to never expirable .

 

If their is a password policy for the client  such that  every password should be changed then the above comes in conflict . You have the option to define a process to cater this . Normally the password is changed every quarter/year depending on the security policy

 

Thanks ,

Manu

 

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