Final Word on the Password Problem

[GCC Consulting]

Have you considered saving your processing tables in ALL ASCII format. 

Have you set ABE=ASCII?  

I am assuming that you have as you have indicated your are using vi.

Richard Kreiss



> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of Vicky Prigg
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 12:13 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Final Word on the Password Problem
> 
> Finally, I think we have the password problem solved and I'd 
> like to thank everyone for their help, especially Bob 
> Stockler, as it was his suggestion that we ended up using.  I 
> used vi to look at the files that had the password on it and 
> the ones that I could read, wrote down the password 
> characters in the first line.  Turns out that many of the 
> files had the same characters.  Bob suggested putting these 
> characters in the 4th line of the fppath file.  This allowed 
> me to get into the processing tables and save them as ASCII, 
> then I could go back into them by vi and take out the 
> password.  Once this was completed, we removed the password 
> from fppath.  We still are puzzled by this, however.  When we 
> went into the fppath file, there was already a password on 
> the 4th line, which had not been there before.  This file was 
> read only, so how it got there, we don't know.  There are 
> only 2 of us here who know anything about this system, so I 
> don't believe it is a disgruntled employee.  I am going to 
> start checking this file on a weekly basis and see if it 
> happens again.
> Thanks again for all your suggestions.
> 
> Vicky Prigg
> Laparkan Trading Ltd.
> 2929 NW 73rd St.
> Miami, FL 33147 
> 
> 
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