RE: As/400 Logon

Well, I used the trick which is only a half solution:
You can have the user to pass username and password as parameters to batch
program, which would generate on the fly the commands.txt file with username
and password, pass this file as parameter to FTP as in example below, and
after that just delete the file. Like this:
 
echo %1 %2 > commands.txt
echo ... >> commands.txt
ftp -s:commands.txt
del commands.txt
 
%1 is first parameter and so on. Of course when you call the batch, the
password you type can be seen on the monitor. It can be done better using
Perl.
 
Regards,
David
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  Janusz David Prusaczyk
  janusz.prusaczyk@big.pl
  tel. +48 (22) 657 57 48
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brad McDaniel [mailto:BMCDANIEL@ABSBC.ORG]
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 7:05 PM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: As/400 Logon



Are you using the batch program to FTP to the 400?  If so, here's an
example: 

batch command:  
        ftp -s:commands.txt 
        (Specifies a text file containing ftp commands; the commands will
automatically run after ftp starts. No spaces are allowed in this
parameter.)

commands.txt: 
        username password 
        put yourfile.txt 
        quit 

Not real secure, of course, because the username and password are in a text
file, but maybe this will help? 

Brad McDaniel 
Information Services 
Annuity Board, SBC 
(214) 720-6546 


-----Original Message----- 
From: keith.nolan@dubport.ccs.ie [ mailto:keith.nolan@dubport.ccs.ie
<mailto:keith.nolan@dubport.ccs.ie> ] 
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 11:32 AM 
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com 
Subject: As/400 Logon 


Hi, 

Quick Question....  How do I connect to an AS/400 in a Batch DOS program
from a windows NT Server with a specified user name and password.  Ignorance
is my Forte.

TIA 

Keith 


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