Re: Password "Hint" Feasibility

Why not create an INTRAnet application which would either email them
their password or password hint.  
You see such applications all the time on site where users register in
order to customize the site for their profile.

When you create a user have them give you their mothers maiden name or
another password hint and then add that to a database.  When the user
gets to the password hint Intranet page, ask for their email address and
their password hint then verify the hint is correct and email their
password.  Heck, if your Intranet server is the AS/400 then you could
write a little CGI that would generate a new password, e-mail it to the
user, then do a CHGPWD on that user and set them to password expire at
next logon. 

Looks like more than a little maintenance work would go into
synchronizing the hint .DB with the user profiles.

"York, Albert" wrote:
> 
> You could set up a user with a name of 'PASSWORD' and a password of 'HINT'.
> When the user signs on as this user they are taken to the password hint
> screen. Once they figure out the password then they would press a function
> key to return to the sign on screen.
> 
>  Albert York
> 
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From:   Paul Jackson [SMTP:paulgjackson@yahoo.com]
>         Sent:   Tuesday, November 07, 2000 5:54 PM
>         To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>         Subject:        Password "Hint" Feasibility
> 
>         One of the most frequent calls to our help desk is
>         from people who have forgotten their AS/400 password.
>         We would like to implement some method to allow users
>         to store some "hint" or reminder text that they can
>         use to jog their memory if they forget the password.
> 
>         I know that I can tinker with the CHGPWD routine (or
>         create a new one higher in the library list) to prompt
>         for password change info AND a text field. But does
>         anyone know of any way of calling an application from
>         the basic signon screen? For example, if someone
>         forgets their password, they would like to press F24
>         from the signon screen to bring up a password reminder
>         prompt program.
> 
>         Is this even possible? I have my doubts because at the
>         point the signon screen is processed, a job is not
>         even active.
> 
>         I guess if they had access to another session, they
>         could prompt a command to let them check their hint
>         text, but this assumes another user is signed on and
>         has access to that command.
> 
>         Any ideas suggestions? We would really like to reduce
>         the burden from the help desk on having to reset so
>         many users passwords.
> 
>         Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
> 
>         -Paul Jackson
>         Costco Wholesale,
>         Issaquah, WA
> 
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