=============================================== SEARCH400.COM DEVELOPER TIP July 5, 2001 More developer tips at http://search400.techtarget.com/tipsIndex/0,289482,sid3_tax2f9,00.html =============================================== SPONSORED BY: ARCAD =============================================== How up to date is your AS/400 technical DOCUMENTATION? ARCAD Observer is a unique and powerful AS/400 solution offering a completely automated technical documentation process of your AS/400 applications. This highly configurable and graphical software instantly generates technical documentation directly on your PC. The FREE, fully functional NEW AS/400 Source Code Analyzer for RPG, COBOL & ILE is available to the first 500 ARCAD site visitors at http://www.arcadsoftware.com/ Contact Eric at (978) 927-2931 in the U.S. and Canada. =============================================== FTP synchronizes passwords By Graeme Dobie, search400 member This tip makes it easy to work with passwords on multiple systems. We're looking for tips like this from a variety of sources. You probably have some from your experience, and can easily submit one at http://search400.techtarget.com/tipsSubmit/1,289485,sid3,00.html It's a pain if you have to perform a regular task on several systems, such as synchronize passwords. By using FTP (in this case on an NT command prompt), one can create scripts 'on the fly' and reduce the overhead. These routines presume the password is already the same on all specified systems. *** PLEASE NOTE *** Even though these routines clean up after themselves, it may still be possible to recover the deleted files after use. USE; GROUP_P user_id current_password new_password By changing the line, echo quote rcmd chgusrprf %2 password(%4)>>script1.scr other commands can be run, e.g.. STRSBS SBS(QINTER) ? However, remember these commands are effectively submitted to a batch stream, so don't try accessing anything in library QTEMP! The user should have command line authority, and authority to the OS/400 commands used. The FTP servers should be running. It goes without saying that you should regularly review your user's authority and access *especially* if you have any of the more common daemons running. Code: GROUP_P.BAT source code (modify system1 system 2 etc for valid hosts) @echo off call password.bat system1 %1 %2 %3 call password.bat system2 %1 %2 %3 echo passwords changed for user %1 PASSWORD.BAT source @echo off if exist script1.scr del script1.scr>nul if exist temp.bat del temp.bat>nul echo open %1>script1.scr echo %2>>script1.scr echo %3>>script1.scr echo quote rcmd chgusrprf %2 password(%4)>>script1.scr echo quit>>script1.scr echo ftp -s:script1.scr>temp.bat echo del script1.scr>>temp.bat temp.bat del script1.scr>nul echo password changed for system %1 user %2 ================================ OTHER DEVELOPER TIPS ================================ Search400 members also submitted the following developer tips recently: Was the function cancelled? 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