Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: AS400 Object

OK, then getting the user handle sounds like what you want.  I'm not seeing
the need for the intermediate step.

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On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 9:53 AM Nair, Dilip <[email protected]>
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> We are not creating new profiles with the generic user/pass
>
> We have a web application where the user logins with their own as/400
> userid and password.
> We use the AS400 object created with the generic profile to validate the
> business user profile trying to login to the application , another use case
> is invoking an RPG program from Java where we need an AS400 object to make
> the program call.
>
> Dilip Nair
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> Maybe I'm dense (probably so) but if the user calling this function has an
> IBM i profile and is creating a new one, then the user calling the function
> should be able to provide a valid password the API could validate. The Java
> Project as I quickly
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> variables.  Cool, yes, but to store a password that enables one to create
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> other user profiles, I wonder about the wisdom of that .
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> > We would like to secure the password used to create the AS400 object.
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> > This is what we do
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> > AS400  sys = new AS400(system , genericuser ,password)
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> > Sys.validatesignon(username , userpassword)
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> > Password for the creating the sys object is hardcoded and would like to
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> > take it off the code..
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