Just to mention, there is a TAATOOL utility that can be used to 'show'
user passwords. It does this by using an exit point to store the password
into a user created file before the operating system stores it internally.
You can find a full description (and explanations of the security
trade-off) at
http://www.taatool.com/document/L_dsppwd.htm.
Otherwise good luck. The operating system itself will not support a user
accessing/displaying/modifying the library and file where passwords are
stored. If you want to learn more, read through the MI list history. Some
of the links there are now gone, but it is possible to use SST to
see/modify these. Even if you can see where they are, the passwords are
encrypted within the database. It's beyond the scope of discussion here,
but the system never decrypts them so much as it encrypts any user entered
password and sees if it matches the stored encrypted value. Again, good
luck on messing with those functions unless you know how to modify your
programs to run in system state.
Andrew Lopez
Systems Analyst
Phone: 803-714-2037
Email: ALopez@xxxxxxxxxx
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