As usual, I have no particular argument with the facts you have presented; only that you are ignoring facts presented to you.

You tell your boss the right way to fix it. He says,

      "Well, Mike Richardson owns that server. He set it up, his people maintain it, and we've asked him to change authentication to something which can be globalized. But he won't budge. And my management won't back me on trying to force him to change the way he does business -- it just isn't in our corporate culture.      
 
However, they do have a bug up their behind about getting cleartext passwords out of this module.
 
Short of revamping the entire system, which I cannot do, what can you do for me to meet this requirement?"

So, esteemed BrowserUk, I ask you again -- laying out more fully what I suspect you were smart enough to know was my point all along -- what is your response in this hypothetical situation? Is this really the issue you'd really stand tall on and stake your career path, or would you be inclined to bend a little, and help your boss?

And, assuming you don't choose to tender your resignation (or at least put the nail in the coffin of your future with this company), what would your approach be toward developing a solution for your boss?

Which comes as close as I dare to presenting a condition which might require the assistance requested by the OP.

In reply to Re^9: encrypt passwords by marinersk
in thread encrypt passwords by fionbarr

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