Creation password prompt at runtime

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 01:20:00AM -0400, John Esak wrote:
> > Which way does it fail a bad password?  Does it error out to a menu, or
> > just fail the lookup?
> 
> Actually, if you leave the password thing to happen at Runtime, it is not
> very elegant at all... but how could it be?  I never do this...
> 
> However, if you were to do:
> 
>     @keyT   if:
>           then: ff="payrollfile";  ky=""
>             if:
>           then: lookup try=(ff) k=ky i=a -ng
>             if:
>           then: end
> 
> You get.... the following if you don't know the password....
> 
> 
> *** A filePro Error Has Occurred ***
> 
> On File: /u/appl/filepro/nexpremp/lockfile
> 
> Input Processing
> Line Number: 5
> Incorrect password.?
> 
> Like I said, not very elegant... but what else is there to do?

Just fail the lookup.

Optimally, they could leave a readable error code in some variable
somewhere, but there isn't one for that at the moment.

> I suggest not leaving passwords for runtime.  I do lookups into our
> payroll file all the time so processes can test whether an employee
> is a manager or whatever. There is no need to show or use more of
> the sensitive file than required and putting the password in when you
> sae the processing is no big deal. It doesn't go anywhere... just
> let's you do this kind of thing... which is crucial.

That paragraph sounded like you both do, and do not, put runtime
passwords on files.  Could you clarify?

Cheers,
-- jra
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