Re: Help with password field using DDS

[George Amaya <george.amaya@xxxxxxxxx>]

John...

I've seen an example before where two fields were used. The first was a 10
character field and the second was 1 character field with the change
indicator on it. When the user types, the 10 character field is replaced
with "*". If an error occurred, the 10 character field displayed like a
normal error but without showing the password. In the RPG program, the
characters typed in the 1 character field were appended to an internal
field.

I'll try to find the example if I can.

Thanks
George

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:48 PM, John Allen <jallen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If have looked and looked for an answer to this and I know someone else
> must
> already have gone down this road.
>
> 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
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