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We have 24 partitions across 7 systems and I wrote a routine that keeps the
same password for the like profiles on each.
It uses the password APIs.  When a user changes his password on any system
the API encrypts it and then using FTP I send it to the other systems were
the other API applies it. All the systems are in sync in under a minute.  I
also built a short cut for the Admin. So that if a password is changed
manually it can be distributed as needed.

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Doug Hart
 
 

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Charmatz
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 10:03 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: password synch

I read some archive posts and didn't really see any reponses to this....

We currently have an LPARed V5R3 system.  The problem is the overhead
keeping users and their password synched up.  Which leads me into the
following question:
We are setting up a HATS application to use a web browser for users to
access the 400.  We have set up a single partition to act as the host and
are using a pass through (menu option) to the other partitions.  The problem
here is that the user has to enter their password on the intial login to the
the host server, and then again to the production server.  In a perfect
environment, users passwords would be synched up from the initial setup,
however, this isn't a per4fect environment.  Is there anyway to keep base
400 user profiles syched up between partitions without manual intervention?
My initial thought on this would be to use a single login environment using
kerberos to synch up the passwords.  Has anyone attempted this?

On a similar note, we have shared drives setup on our 400 which end users
use to upload files.  The problem here is that in order to access these
shared drives, client access requires (at least on our system) the Windows
user name and password to be identical to the AS400 user name and passowrd
which also creates a lot of overhead each times a user is required to switch
either their AS400 or Windows password.  Assuming I don't setup a single
login enviroment, is there anyway around this?

Thanks,

David Charmatz


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