Login security

Robert Haussmann haussma at nextdimension.net
Tue Jul 5 12:47:58 PDT 2005


> Quoting Robert Haussmann (Tue, 5 Jul 2005 15:27:38 -0400):
> [...]
> > 1) use GETENV to get the system variable USERNAME (contains
> > the username of the logged in user for Windows NT/2000/XP;
> > not sure about XP).  This eliminates the user needed to retype
> > the username, but you'll have to verify the password each time.
> [...]
> 
> Or use @ID, which has been available on Windows for two years.
> 

Excellent point (although I believe this truncates usernames at
8 characters IIRC--at least that why we went to storing 
usernames/pw's in our own environmental variables).

Bob



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