Final Word on the Password Problem

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 12:28:20PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> "Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:
> [...]
> > If you change a site password, what happens to all the other tables:
> > does filePro remember that there was a chnage, and rewrite the old with
> > the new when it next sees the file?  I presume it doesn't sweep
> > everything...
> 
> The site password is only placed in processing tables that you create/edit
> that do not already have a processing password.  Changing the site password
> has no direct effect on existing passworded tables.  However, it you change
> the password such that the processing table's password no longer matches
> the site password, then filePro will start asking for the password before
> you can see/edit the processing.  (The same is true if you take the file
> to a different machine, such as a client's, where the site password is not
> the same.)

Ah... but *which* password, Ken?  The one you know, cause you set it?

Or the old one, which you either forgot or didn't set in the first
place?

Cheers,
-- jra
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