Password Problem Revisited

[Nancy Palmquist]

Vicky Prigg wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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Vicky,

As to the cost from fptech to remove all the site/process passwords.  I
understood that to be $100 for all the files you send.  So it is not
based on the number of files and just a total for the entire job.  I
think all they need to do it is the filename/prc.* tables for all the
offending files.  (On WINDOWS  filename\*.prc)

I haven't done it in a while but that is how I remember the pricing.

Nancy
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