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Well, this is important to me, but it isn't exactly a scientific breakthrough or as worthwhile as what others might say, but several years ago at the utility I'
by cheunste 8y ago
Well, this is important to me, but it isn't exactly a scientific breakthrough or as worthwhile as what others might say, but several years ago at the utility I'm currently working for, we have this stupid method of adding users to a HMI...by manually typing in their user ID, their name and some default password into the user credential file onto the HMI (this is also a crappy HMI software, so the text document isn't even hashed) and then emailing said password to the users.
Anyways, what I did was write a VBA code that
1) Allowed me to take the user ID of the people that needed to be added into said HMI, then get their first name and last name from outlook using an outlook api and automatically adds these users into the credential files.
2) Send the email to the same list of users after I update the file onto the HMI (the HMIs themselves in an air gap network).
Why is this important? Because it got some of my other coworkers to trust that I can find bullshit problems and solve them (this isn't the only bullshit problem I have to do over the years), thus gaining their trust and overtime, got a promotion.