RE: Help with password field using DDS -- RPG400-L

I tried something like this once. The biggest problem was how to
correct a mistype... I never used it for password prompts, since our
users were already experts at exceeding their password retry counts...
Why make it easier for them to mess up?

-eric

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of George Amaya
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 7:14 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Help with password field using DDS

Here's the Example I was talking about... It's a bit crud, but it shows
what I mean.

Thanks
George

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:56 PM, John Allen <jallen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I hadn't thought of this idea, I think I will give it a try (or I may
put a message to the right "Invalid Password" rather then the field to

the left of it

Thanks everyone

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On Behalf Of Tom Armbruster
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 7:19 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: RE: Help with password field using DDS

John,

If you have a label for each password entry line, rather than trying
to manipulate the input field, you could use indicators to change the
attributes of the labels.

For example:

A 5 2'User 1 ID'
A USERID1 10A B 5 25DSPATR(ND)
A 6 2'User 1 Password'
A 90 COLOR(RED)
A PASSWD1 10A I 6 25DSPATR(ND)
A 90 DSPATR(PC)
A 7 2'User 2 ID'
A USERID2 10A B 7 25DSPATR(ND)
A 8 2'User 2 Password'
A 91 COLOR(RED)
A PASSWD2 10A I 8 25DSPATR(ND)
A 91 DSPATR(PC)

Etc...

Tom Armbruster

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Allen
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 2:48 PM
To: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Help with password field using DDS

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.

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)

(it's for printing checks with signatures)

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.

it appears there is no way to define the field as a password field so
they do not display (or better yet display *********)

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)

I would like to know how others have handled fields where the user
must enter a password.

Thanks

John

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