Re: AS400 Automatic Sending of New Password?

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What if someone posed as another user?   for example, if Joe wanted 
Bob's password, Joe could say "This is Bob.  I've tried my password and 
it's not working." and you'd give him Bob's password!

McGovern, Sean wrote:
> At a previous company, certain users would complain frequently about
> the system not accepting their password and asking for a reset. I got
> fed up, and wrote a routine to store the unencrypted password using
> an exit point program.
>
> After that, when users called, I could tell them what their password
> was. "Oh yeah, that was it", they would say.