Final Word on the Password Problem

Bob Stockler bob at trebor.iglou.com
Mon Jul 12 17:03:51 PDT 2004


On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 03:49:38PM -0400, Nancy Palmquist wrote:
| 
| 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?

With all due respect, I can't disagree more.

I'm for ABE=ASCII and "no site password".

Bob

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