Password Problem Revisited

[Scott Walker]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of Richard D. Williams
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 4:22 PM
> To: vprigg at laparkan.com
> Cc: FilePro Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Password Problem Revisited
> 
> 
> Vicky,
> 
> I have seen this strange thing as well. Sometimes when I am coding my 
> fingers must hit some combination of keys and a filepro 
> window pops up 
> asking if I want to set a processing table password.
> 
> Since I am working on the processing table I already know there is NO 
> password set.  I have simply pressed enter and went on about 
> my business 
> of coding.  Still wandering....... what keys did I press to get this 
> little window up?
>

Richard,

Try this <F8> then <O>

It's not one of the selections listed on the screen but it sure gets you
where you _DON'T_ want to be.

Regards,


Scott






Scott Walker
RAM Systems Corp.
PO Box 1778
Davidson, NC 28036
Ph: (704) 896-6549
Fx: (704) 896-7458
Email:  scottw1 at alltel.net  
> That maybe your problem.  But this is not a solution.
> 
> FP tech can take these pesky passowrd off for you (for a 
> fee.)  Contact 
> them.
> 
> Sorry I can help you,
> Richard D. Wiliams
> 
> Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> 
> >Vicky Prigg propounded (on Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 12:38:12PM -0400):
> >| 
> >| 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!
> >
> >If you have ABE=ASCII in your config file, then run dcabe, 
> open such a 
> >non-ascii table, save it, and presto, it's once again legible.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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