Re: Where are the System i password storeds? -- MIDRANGE-L

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They are in the user profile object. I have been able to determine exactly where in the profile in the past but haven't looked in a few releases. They are in fact encrypted though so while I could see where they were I couldn't read them or decrypt them. There have been tools to do so though because with short passwords there are only a limited number of characters allowing a brute force attack to succeed quite quickly. If you use long password support then it gets a whoooooole lot harder to decrypt them by brute force.

- Larry

Steve Landess wrote:

All -

I'm having a "discussion" with another developer right now about where AS/400 -
iSeries - System i passwords are stored.
He says that they are stored in a file - I say that they are encrypted and
stored within the user profile.

Who is right?
Is there an IBM link that discusses this information somewhere on their web
site?

Regards,
Steve Landess
Austin, Texas

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