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Subject: password verification...
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Date: Wed, 28-Jan-87 15:03:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 28 15:03:00 1987
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I am interested in the inclusion of a module within my program
which first asks a user to enter their password, passes that
program through the standard VMS one-way encryption formula and
then compares it with the password stored in SYSUAF.DAT.

In this way, I can assure that the authorized user is actually at
the terminal when the command is entered (just as VMS SET PASSWORD
required that you know your old password).

Does anyone know of a high-level (e.g. non-macro) system call
to VMS that accomplishes this}i feat?