Final Word on the Password Problem

[Nancy Palmquist]

Vicky Prigg wrote:
> 
> 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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Vicky,

I have posted this comment many times over the years, but you should
assign a site password right now.  ALWAYS do it.

Write it down, put it in the safe and let it attach to your programs as
you work.  It will never bother you again.

When all your processes have a password, as soon as it it changed and
you try to access an existing process, you will be alerted with a
password prompt.

If you have none on any procesing, assigning a site password will be
silent and invisible, as you have witnessed. As you work, each table
with no current password, will be assigned the new one.  You will never
notice the change until that master site password is lost or changed.

Isn't it better to have the password assigned by you so you will always
be able to access the tables?

Nancy
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Nancy Palmquist 
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