I think if you were just going to take the password and verify that it was 
correct (or not), that shouldn't be a big issue.  Although there should be some 
way to keep the user from using it to "guess" other people's passwords.  Maybe 
a limit on tries, or a way to inform someone that they tried it more than once 
in a certain period of time.

With some restrictions, I think that just issuing the RACROUT request=verify, 
would be okay.  There should probably be some mechanism to revoke the ID if 
there are two many guesses though. 

Brian


On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 21:02:50 +0000, Jousma, David <[email protected]> wrote:

>Sam,
>
>I'm curious as to the usage scenario?   This almost sounds like a security 
>problem?  So you take a users password input, go ask SAF if correct?  Sounds 
>like a man-in-the-middle situation?  
>
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>     Does anyone have user-written code for RACF, so that if the user types in 
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>     I'd like to see code that does this, for ACF2 and Top Secret as well, but 
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