Initial password expires:Communication Users

Hi All,
I have created one user for early watch alert generation purpose user password expires every 15 days :
Defined profile parameter is:login/password_max_idle_initial:14
As per my understanding communication user password never expires.
Kindly please suggest me
Thanks in Advance
Regards
Nekkalapu

Hi Siva,
Thanks for you response.
But it will effect to all the users right,sap also is not recomending to put 0 value this parameter.
Is their any other way to resolev this issue.
I am using communication users for generating earlywatch laerts.
Advance thanks
Regards
Nekkalapu

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We have set a general rule, that users must change password every 90 days (login/password_expiration_time). We have now had a communication user in the system for more than 5 months, and the password is still not expired.
How can this be? Shouldn't communication users be forced to change the password?
In table USR02 I can see a field XUPWDSTATE - "Password Change Mandatory / Optional (See Domain XUPWDSTATE)", but I can't find any documentation on this field. The values are 0,1,254,255. Does anybody know what these values mean and how/when they are set.
Thank you for your help.
Regards, Morten

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Morten Ellgaard wrote:
> Hi
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> We have set a general rule, that users must change password every 90 days (login/password_expiration_time). We have now had a communication user in the system for more than 5 months, and the password is still not expired.
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> How can this be? Shouldn't communication users be forced to change the password?
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> In table USR02 I can see a field XUPWDSTATE - "Password Change Mandatory / Optional (See Domain XUPWDSTATE)", but I can't find any documentation on this field. The values are 0,1,254,255. Does anybody know what these values mean and how/when they are set.
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> Thank you for your help.
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> Regards, Morten
Well, that's a common misunderstanding:
accounts of type "COMMUNICATION user" are subject of password expiration - however the password change requirement is not enforced (since the server cannot interact with the user). Actually that's not mainly caused by the user type but by the communication protocol being used: RFC and HTTP allow both, interactive and non-interactive system usage. Only the DIAG protocol (used by SAPGUI) ensures that an interaction with the user is possible - and in this case the system is enforcing a password change (when required).
Note 622464 provides an overview on the user types and the ability / requirement to change passwords (and other impacts).
Side-remark: modifying the USR02 field would not have any impact on the password change handling (beside the fact that such direct table manipulations are risky and strongly discouraged).
As reported by other SDN community members (and stated in note 320991, quite at the end) there are some profile parameters that will cause RFC and HTTP based logon to fail for passwords which are expired / initial. Setting those profile parameters will result in a downwards-incompatible system behavior - for this reason the default setting is "off".
Indeed, if you intend to use "technical accounts" for (automated) system-to-system communication, then kindly use the user type "SYSTEM". In that case, the password is neither "expired" nor "initial" - no password change is required nor can it be performed by the SYSTEM user itself. Only an user administrator can set a new password (in systems as of NWAS 7.0: even a downwards-compatible one - despite the password policy, see notes referenced by note 622464).

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