Re: User profile question -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: User profile question
From: Sean Porterfield <sporter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:30:26 -0500
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John Earl wrote:

What about a password of *none.  Would that not prevent
the user from
signing on?

Yes.

It also keeps the profile usable for profile swaps - though as others
have noted there still may be a goofy requirement for QUSER to have a
password (any password) in order for it to be used.

jte

We have had QUSER with password *NONE since 1997 based on somerecommendation for initial security setup for TCP/IP (when our LAN wasone PC and the AS/400!)

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