Password Problem Revisited

[John Esak]

Jeez, just in case you missed Bob Stockler's suggestion, Vicky... Don't use
vi to remove the passwords until you jot it down exactly or cut and paste it
to the fourth line of the /etc/default/password file. That will allow you to
set all the tables back to plain ascii first...  Do this by putting
ABE=ASCII in your configuration editor, then resaving the table's _Then_ and
only then after all the tables have been resaved (I would do it (en masse
(sp?) from the command line), you can remove the 4th line and be back to
ground zero.

John Esak


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Vicky
> Prigg
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 12:38 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Password Problem Revisited
>
>
>
> 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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>
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