Exempt UME user for password expiration

Question

Is there a way to exempt a user from the password expiration setting? For example, passwords for all users are set to expire every 90 days, but a user id, say "monitor_user", is used in monitoring application to perform an automated logon check. Every 90 days when the password expires, the monitor fails. Is there a way to set this user's password not to expire?
Thanks

Answer 1

Glen and Giorgio,
Let me see if I can clear things up a little bit.
First, there is the security policy which is controlled by the UME properties. This defines password length, logon ID length, etc. These properties apply to the entire AS Java and cannot be trimmed down for individual users. How they apply to users in different data sources also varies. For example, these properties are ignored to some extent if you have an ABAP system as your user store. See the following link:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/7f/c52442ad9f5133e10000000a155106/frameset.htm
Second, as of NW 04s SPS 7 a new user attribute was added, named "security policy". For individual users you can choose one of the following security policies:
default users (user can logon, password rules apply)
technical users (user can logon, password does not expire)
internal service users (user cannot logon, usually do not have passwords)
There is a fourth policy: unknown users, applies to certain users mapped from an AS ABAP.
In SPS 7 I believe and latest in SPS 8, you have limited abilities to change the security policy of the user with identity management. You can change the policy from unknown or default to technical but not back.
In SPS 9 and later you can change the policy from unknown or default to technical and from unknown or technical to default.
I wonder if support misunderstood your question and thought you were referring to the first type of security policy and not the second.
Message was edited by: Michael Shea