Password Problem Revisited

[Vicky Prigg]

Despite some good suggestions, we have not solved our password problem.
It is not a site password as some have suggested, rather it is a
'processing password' that has somehow been acquired by some (not all)
of our processing tables.  It was not a one time thing that happened to
all the processing tables present at the time.  It happened to a few,
while not affecting others.  And, it is not a case where someone gave a
password to a processing table and forgot it.   We cannot use backup
tapes because they have long since been recycled.  We do have an fppath
file in the directory /etc/default and it is set to /appl .  Is there a
way to convert processing that was not saved as ASCII to an ASCII
format?  Some of the processing tables were saved as ASCII and those I
can use vi to remove the password.  Others were not saved as ASCII.  We
have since set ABE = ascii so any future programs should not be a
problem.  I know that fptech can do this for us, but we have quite a
number of programs that would require fixing and it would be quite
costly.  Also, if anyone has any ideas as to how this happened in the
first place, please let me know!  


Vicky Prigg
Laparkan Trading Ltd.
2929 NW 73rd St.
Miami, FL 33147