RE: AS400 Automatic Sending of New Password?

It was a small company - I knew everybody !

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Scott Klement
Sent: Thu 18/06/2009 20:05
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: AS400 Automatic Sending of New Password?



What if someone posed as another user? for example, if Joe wanted
Bob's password, Joe could say "This is Bob. I've tried my password and
it's not working." and you'd give him Bob's password!

McGovern, Sean wrote:

At a previous company, certain users would complain frequently about
the system not accepting their password and asking for a reset. I got
fed up, and wrote a routine to store the unencrypted password using
an exit point program.

After that, when users called, I could tell them what their password
was. "Oh yeah, that was it", they would say.

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