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Martin, At was at an office once in this same scenario. Only the programmers needed access to green screen 5250 emulation. Everything else was client server. So how do you get the user to change their password? The solution we came up with works, but didn't really like it. We had the web server running on the AS/400 and it was quick to write a little RPG program that accepted 3 parameters and returned one. The 1st parameter was their user name. The 2nd parameter was their old password. The 3nd parameter was their new password. It would first make sure their old password matched by calling an system program (this was RPG III) that stated if the passwords matched. Then it would call another system program to change their password. The parameter that was returned was a text string that stated success, old password not found, new password not long enough, matches one of previous 4 attempts, etc... We then build a web page to test it out and it worked. We then build a little Delphi program that called the RPG CGI program directly and it worked. The thing I did not like about was the un-encrypted password going over the network. But I think we're doing this all the time with our 5250 emulations anyway. Regards, Jim Langston Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:28:51 -0000 From: "McCallion, Martin" <MccalliM@Midas-Kapiti.com> Subject: How do I allow NetServer-only users to change their AS/400 passwo rds? Hi all. We have a number of users here who need access to the AS/400 via NetServer only; they are not AS/400 programmers, they never need to sign on to a green screen, but they do need to be able to add and edit files in the IFS. We have NetServer running, appropriate shares set up, and User Profiles set up matching the Windows user names. However, I can't find any way to allow such users to change their AS/400 passwords from the PC. It would seem like massive overkill to insall Client Access Express on each machine and show them all how to sign on and change their passwords. We're on V4R4 and NT4, FWIW. I've searched the archives, IBM's site and Usenet fairly comprehensively, and I'm beginning to believe that there is no solution to this. But surely IBM couldn't be so dumb...? :-) Cheers, Martin. +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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