Re: Help with password field using DDS

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John,

Every single program I've seen or written that uses passwords uses a 
non-display field.  (This includes the 5250 sign-on screen that we all 
know and love.)

You're right that it can't be both non-display and reverse-image at the 
same time.  So typically a screen where you key user/password would 
simply not have reverse-image input fields.  Is that a big deal?

(In my shop, almost nothing uses reverse-image input fields, so it's not 
a problem for us.)


On 4/1/2010 4:48 PM, John Allen wrote:
> If have looked and looked for an answer to this and I know someone else must
> already have gone down this road.
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> So I shall post my question.
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> I need a screen to prompt a user for up to 5 passwords (several different
> people may have to enter their passwords before the program can continue)
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> (it's for printing checks with signatures)
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> I do not want the passwords to display and I need to validate the fields and
> display message if one or more of the password are not valid.
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> it appears there is no way to define the field as a password field so they
> do not display (or better yet display *********)
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> If I make the field non-display so the passwords do not display then the
> reverse image does not work (actually works but the non-display does not
> display the reverse image)
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> I would like to know how others have handled fields where the user must
> enter a password.
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> Thanks
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> John