Re: change password API

The only problem I see with this is that the PC doesn't have
the same encryption logarithm as the AS/400.  How is the
PC going to encrypt the password so that the AS/400 API
can decrypt it?

Unless Client Access has some API that will encrypt it for you.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Phil Hall wrote:

> <SNIP>
> There are two API's, from V3R7 that allow you to send encrypted
> passwords form one machine to another. QSYRUPWD (retrieve encrypted
> password) and QSYSUPWD (set encrypted password). These two API's can
> (and are meant to) be used together to sync passwords between AS/400s

<SNIP>

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