Final Word on the Password Problem

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 01:07:18PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> "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"?

I'll infer that your non-responsive answer means "the old one".

:-)

That may have been Nancy's argument, but I think hers was as obscure as
yours.  

Cheers,
-- jra
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