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  3. May 2004

Re: retrieve the password from an AS400JDBCDriver connection?

Hi,

it would be a serious security hole if this would be possible.
I think there are lots of other ways to store a password than
asking the JDBC driver for it ;-)



> However if the username or password is incorrect, the default Login
> panel appears and allows the user to reenter the values.    It appears
> that I can retrieve the username by
> iSeriesConnection.getMetaData().getUserName();

> Is there a technique to get the password that is entered, so that I can
> use the value elsewhere in the application?

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