Final Word on the Password Problem

[Kenneth Brody]

"Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 12:28:20PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
[...]
> > 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?

Wasn't that Nancy's argument for "assign a site password" rather than
"leave it unset and scramble for a fix when someone changes it to
something you don't know"?

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