Re: User Authentication

[Wayne McAlpine <wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can use a number as an iseries user id.  Create the profile by 
specifying a leading "q" and when the user logs on, it should accept it 
either as q999999 or as simply 999999.  This pertains to green screen 
signons, but it should work for other purposes too.

Dave Reiher/prairiefarms wrote:
> For starters, they currently log in to an old web site using an ID we 
> assigned to them and it is their account number. I can't use a number as a 
> user profile on the 400, can I?
> If I could do that, then I would just create each one of these as a usrprf 
> and let that be my validation.
> I would really like to do that and place each report in the users folder, 
> but then there are 2000 folders (2000 is a pretty static number), would 
> that be an issue on the IFS??
> They are small reports, most are one page. So I don't believe that space 
> would be a problem and each user would never have more than 4 reports 
> which would always be overwritten each night or week or month. 
>
> Not real sure where I want to go from here.......
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>     Dave Reiher
>     System Analyst
>     Prairie Farms Dairy - Corporate
>     Ph: 217.854.2547 ext. 254
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> Dave,
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> Perhaps I'm missing something but if you're working with the iSeries,
> why wouldn't you just use the user profiles of the iSeries when they
> logon to the Web front end?   I also assume the reports your application
> is running for them are reports from a query tool or application running
> on the iSeries.   If that is the case, why wouldn't you create an
> authorization table/matrix to query to provide the name of the report to
> display on their web screen as well as authentication. 
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> Dave Odom
> Arizona 
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> I am going to have a web site where users can access reports specific
> to 
> them.
> There are anywhere from 1500 to 2000 users. How would be the
> recommended 
> way to store the usernames and passwords on the partition i have
> running 
> WebSphere?
> Currently they exist in an external DB file on the 400, should I just 
> write something to hit that file when they try to login?
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> Regardless of the answer to this, it will lead me to my next question.
> I 
> am really just going to need a simple login page and then a page 
> displaying links to the 4 different reports specific to the user. I
> know 
> it is nothing elaborate, but where could I find some resources on how
> to 
> do this? Believe me, if it were MS .NET I could slap it together in 30
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> seconds, but I am new to the WS ide and java, any help would be 
> appreciated.
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> Thanks!
>     Dave Reiher
>     System Analyst
>     Prairie Farms Dairy - Corporate
>     Ph: 217.854.2547 ext. 254
>     dreiher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx