RE: Check user password API?

Great -- thanks -- I think we will go that way :) 

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bryan Yates
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 9:19 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Check user password API?

You should use the QSYGETPH api to validate the user profile and
password.  This api returns a profile handle if successful or the cpf
message (in the QUSEC construct) if validation fails.

Bryan Yates
SR Systems Analyst/Programmer
Information Technology
Collin County Government
http://www.collincountytexas.gov
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Silvers
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 7:48 AM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Check user password API?

All,
 
I would like to check an iSeries username and password using application
security on the web.  I thought there was an API where I could pass the
username and password and the return would be true or false.  When I was
thinking about this initially, I was considering the API's QSYRUPWD
(Retrieve Encrypted User Password) and QSYSUPWD (Set Encrypted User
Password).  After reading these API's it is quite apparent that they are
intended for comparison of system to system, not for validating a user
login.
 
What I would like to accomplish is to have an RPG program where I can
pass the username and password and validate against the iSeries
username/password.  
 
Anyone have any ideas/examples?
 
Thanks
 
Mike

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