Final Word on the Password Problem

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:49:39AM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> "Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:
> [...]
> > > > > > > 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.
> [...]
> > > _Which_ "*which* password" are you referring? There's the password in
> > > the processing table, the site password in the original machine, and
> > > the site password on the new machine. I also mentioned changing the
> > > site password, as well as passwords matching or not.
> > 
> > I'm referring to "the password which filePro will start asking for".
> 
> Since we are referring to "before you can see/edit the processing",
> I am obviously referring to the processing's password.  (What other
> password would filePro want at that point?)

You said "filepro will start asking for a password".  There are two
possible passwords it could be asking for, as I made fairly clear
above: the one that was set when the table was *created*, or the one
that's set *now*.  You've already answered that it's the old one; why
are we still beating this horse?

> Let's get back to the OP's problem.  They had a system which probably
> didn't have a site password.  At some point, someone set a site password,
> and new/modified processing tables started to get that password which was
> unknown to the OP.  Sometime later, someone, somehow, changed the site
> password to something else.  (Perhaps they moved to a different machine?)
> At that point, all of those processing tables that were created/modified
> in the interim had a password unknown to the OP, and were inaccessible.
> 
> Nancy's position, as I understand it, is that had the machine(s) all had
> a known site password, this unknown password should never had snuck into
> these processing tables.

True.  And that's not the best of situations either, but I can't see
any good way to engineer around it.

Cheers,
-- jra
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