Sir,
I bow to your knowledge on MPE and I agree I am totally ignorant on this
topic, but I guess we all have to start somewhere to learn something.
I am a Software Consultant working for a Security company and we deal in
password resets via different means.
I write adapters so that using a general GUI a person can reset his/her
password on different systems like Windows NT, Active Directory/Win 2k,
RACF, and also create a wrapper over other security systems like Control SA,
Courion, Netegrity etc....

The need has arisen to do the same for HP3000 and hence the question .....

Here are Rules of Thumb I follow
1. If you don't know anything, ASK
2 Not knowing something does not mean you are dumb, it means you never got a
chance to work on something and now that you have got a break, you learn as
much as you can
3 Does the assignment sound plausible?? Ask me in a month and maybe use my
product in the next few months.

I never know what Control SA was or how RACF worked a few months ago. Today
I have working adapters for the same.

Does this data help you Mr Rosenblatt???? And Sir, A few questions to you..
1 Did you know all about HP 3000 since beginning or did you start learning
as and when you got a chance to?
2. If you need help in some topic you know not of, will your first question
be a detailed, in-depth question of the internals or would be a simple
starting question?
3 Is it too hard for you to help some new guy or is it that you are too busy
to help but too free to write a character analysis of a person asking a
question?

No hard feelings, I am not here to fight but am here to seek help and I hope
you will help me.

Thanks and Regards,
Anurag
P.S. Nothing in that mail is sarcastic. This is how I felt when I read this
mail. I sincerely need the help of you all.

"rosenblatt, joseph" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> I know I've been down this road before but I'm going down it again. If
> somebody we do not know asks questions about security on the 3000 hear are
> some questions I would use in answering them:
> 1. Who are you?
> 2. Why do you want to know?
> 3. What kind of Security Administrator are you if you think people will
> answer Security questions in a public forum.
> 4. What company do you work for?
>
> Here are some other rules of thumb I would use.
> 1. Does the question even vaguely sound like the questioner has any idea
of
> what MPE/3000 systems are?
> 2. Does the assignment sound plausible?
>
> In this case the rules of thumb appear to be answerable in the negative.
> Firstly, the questioner obviously knows nothing of MPE. This is not
unusual
> but he doesn't even know the name of the O/S. Secondly, who is going to
ask
> this person to "write a program (in Java or C++) to externally reset a
> password for a user on HP3000." Is there a System Manager among any of you
> who ask for such a program from somebody without even telling them the
name
> of the O/S?
> I, therefore would not even tell this person the name of the O/S let alone
> any details on how to accomplish this task. Would anyone answer a
stranger's
> question about how their vault locks or their locker combination?
Obviously
> people can do what they want but some of these questions stink of fish. A
> little paranoia goes a long way but to little prudence is worse.
>
> Let Peace be the maxim by which we act because we will Peace to become a
> universal law.
> Work For Peace
> The opinions expressed herein are my own and not necessarily those of my
> employer.
> Yosef Rosenblatt
>
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