Final Word on the Password Problem

[Bob Stockler]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 08:41:42PM -0400, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
| Bob Stockler propounded (on Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 08:03:51PM -0400):
| | 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".
| 
| Absolutely.
| 
| Nancy, why are you strongly advocating the password?

I neglected to mention . . .

As I see it, site passwords were for developers, so they could
distribute "prc" tables to those they sell apps to.

IMHO, with QuickStart they've lost their usefulness.

Those that develop their own apps in house should have ONE user
who controls access to filePro development, and that user should
be able to insure anyone also privileged to develop filePro apps
_must_ have ABE=ASCII in their environment when doing so.

Setting the permissions and ownership of /etc/default/fppath to
read by all but owned by the head filePro programmer, and with
write permissions by that user only might help.

Bob

PS - I still suggest disgruntled employee who left before the
     problem initiating this tread appeared.

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