Menu Passwords

[Bob Stockler]

Jeff Harrison wrote (on Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 06:54:11AM -0700):

| --- "J. Ryan Kelley"
| <ryan.kelley at trinitytransport.com> wrote:
| 
| > I created a special menu several months ago and
| > there was a request made 
| > to password protect it, so I did so.  I passed the
| > password along but 
| > sadly, it wasn't remembered by anyone (including
| > me).  I'd like to be 
| > able to strip the password off the menu so that I
| > can gain access to the 
| > menu without starting it over from scratch.  Is
| > there a method for doing 
| > this? Or would I likely be better off just trying to
| > remember everything 
| > that was in the menu and recreate it?
| > 
| > Thanks in advance,
| > 
| > -- 
| 
| In Unix you can use a text editor such as vi to delete
| the last line in the menu.  If you have Windows, I
| believe that it would be the last two lines because of
| the CR LF.
| 
| So, for example in Unix for the pclient menu it may
| be:
| 
| vi /appl/fp/menus/pclient
| 
| (etc.)

FilePro User Menus are the same on UNIX and Windows.  They
consist of three newline (no carriage return) separated
records.  The third record is the password.  If it is
removed, the menu creation program will still load the
menu and will then save it with the string that indicates
no password, or with a password if one is desired.

Bob

PS - Be careful editing one with a text editor on Windows
     to assure no carriage returns are added.  I don't
     think they would really hurt, but you'd end up with
     a menu that wasn't the standard 4719 bytes size.

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