Authenticate users using i5/OS (AS400) credentials

12-May-2008 | Tags: , , , , , ,
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The folks at IBM have a nice API to use i5/OS (AS400) stuff from Java code. Check it out at http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/software/toolbox/index.html.

What I particularly find very useful and have used often is to validate user names and passwords with the AS400 authentication services. The following code validates a userName and password.
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Authenticating users using Unix or Windows credentials

22-April-2008 | Tags: , , , , ,
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It’s usually very nice, and sometimes a requirement, to validate usernames and passwords using existing credentials. And in most situations big frameworks or single sign-on systems are just damn overkill and complex.

If you need to check your users credentials via an existing Unix system (that supports PAM) or a Windows domain controller check out More »